Hexx...
It is not a pick on you.
If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll let you in on the source and meaning of the name I've picked...
It's sort of a quiet challenge to see if anyone remembers the significance of the name...
http://members.aol.com/neila8/CCCommand/impIntell.html
Is this in reference to your housename?
During the first 12 years of the first "Demon War," the black globe ships of the Kinshaya achieved a 100 to 1 kill ratio against Klingon vessels. The Kinshaya pushed deeply into the Empire, coming to within 20 light years of QočnoS before Klingons were able to attack their supply lines and develop more effective tactics. Despite these changes, the Kinshaya were still able to destroy 30 Klingon vessels for every one they lost during the last 6 years of the war. Most of the losses the Kinshaya suffered came not from weapons fire, but from vessels manned by a few volunteers, specially modified as high explosive rams. Called qulDuj, or fireships, these suicide vessels and their noble crews, are credited with turning the tide and making the Kinshaya pull back and cease their attacks, if only for a little while.
Ahh Kinshaya must be Klingon for Kzinti then, 100 to one sounds about right...... 
If you go back to the earliest novel imaginings of the Klingons after the end of the TOS series, John M. Ford's 1984 novel on Klingons "The Final Reflection" makes quite a few references to the Kinshaya race including describing a portrait of Klingons shooting up a Kinshaya carrier. John M. Ford novel has a lot of references that are obviously SFB-ish in origin. There is also are great story of Klingon D4s massacring Rom Warbirds. Actually, the Captain's log of the time make pointed references to ST2 and ST3 and the contemporary ST novels that Star Trek is becoming more SFB-ish on both film and in novels. There is also a scene with blobish beings that were obviously Hydran-ish beings when the Klingons capture their ship. Then, of course, there are dealings with the strange race using "white saucers connected to oblong blocks with warp nacelles".
The novel's hero eventually ends up visiting Atlanta, GA and has one of his officers secretly treated by Leonard McCoy's father at Emory University Hospital. The Klingon also plays chess with a teenage Spock. There is also an awesome scene where the Feds try to show off and reveal by "surprise" a demo of the transporter beam to the Klingon hero. After the Fed demo of their noisy transporter, the Klingon captain orders his ship to beam up his XO and to the astonishment of all the arrogant Feds, the Klingon beam-up is completely silent. The Klingon captain then asks why the Fed's Transporter is so noisy?!
The Klingon captain also tells a local Atlantan ecentric philosopher that is leading a Fed isolationist movement against the formation of Starfleet that he's basically crazy. Then he give the addled Fed a lecture on how empires either grow or they die. So, he can tell his Klingon superiors that he wants the Feds to be pacifists, but they would never believe that they are that stupid. *snicker*
In all dealings with these races, the Klingons definitely had a superior attitude and more importantly win on the battle-field, and, in the cloak-and-dager world of Imperial Intelligence. The aliens to Klinzhai are kuve. Beings meant to serve because they could not keep their freedom on the battle-field. The Kinshaya are pretty clear references to the Kzin. Of all the interpretation of Klingons in ST lore, on both film and on novels, I like John M. Ford's, cuz not only are the Klingons shown as skilled combatants but also as very intellectually devious and cunning. The Klingon Empire of John M. Ford's universe is a true quadrant super-power to be reckoned with.
Kai Kassai the Klingon Commander.
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