Gorn hunter
The Gorn hunter was a type of small warship employed by the Gorn Hegemony during the 23rd century. It was armed with plasma weapons and was capable of atmospheric flight. The ship could generate a hologram to conceal itself from sensors, though a scan for polarized EM signatures would expose it as an optical distortion. Like the much larger Gorn destroyer, Gorn hunters projected patterns of light for inter-ship communication.

La'an Noonien-Singh and her brother Manu frequently saw Gorn hunters overhead while they were held captive on a Gorn breeding planet.

In 2259, the  was attacked by three Gorn hunters and a Gorn destroyer near Finibus III. Hiding inside a brown dwarf, the Enterprise destroyed one of the hunters with an unguided photon torpedo, and another by luring it to such a depth that it imploded from atmospheric pressure. The third hunter was destroyed when the shuttlecraft  transmitted a light code to the destroyer claiming that the hunter had been taken over by Humans, causing it to fire on the smaller craft. ()

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