USS Enterprise-D crewmembers practicing Mok'bara

Martial arts were athletic disciplines related to combat for the purpose of recreation or self-defense.

The gymnasium on board the Constitution-class and the Galaxy-class starship had martial arts areas. (TOS: "Charlie X"; TNG: "Clues", "Second Chances")


Tuvok had extensive training in the martial arts of many Alpha Quadrant cultures. He knew of over ninety-four ways of killing someone using only a finger, a hand, or a foot. (VOY: "Meld")


The writers' second draft script of ENT: "Breaking the Ice" referred to a Vulcan martial art called Sha'mura, though that discipline is not referenced in canon.

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Kirk&#039;s judo chop

Kirk's "judo cut" or "space karate chop"


As evidenced by the final draft script of ENT: "Hatchery", a Vulcan martial arts maneuver was at one point to have been used in that episode, by T'Pol against a particular MACO. The martial arts move was clearly discarded in favor of stunning the MACO with a phase-pistol.

According to his personnel file in the non-canon video game Star Trek: Starship Creator, Barnaby is a third degree black belt in the art of Tae Kwon Do and lists Earth martial arts among his interests.

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