User blog comment:Krayfish/Redoing Karrel/@comment-3155949-20120322053122/@comment-1743498-20120322134450

Actually, Karrel the Grox Slayer was directly inspired by the 2009 Star Trek film. There's a lot of parallels and subtle references:

-Karrel's father died the same way as Kirk's. (The autopilot malfunctioned.) -Odalegnoc is just like Delta Vega. The Arkleons are like those wolves and the Ice Behemoth is the parallel of the Red Lobster. -The Grox ship was designed similarly to the Romulan mining vessel. -Morta being destroyed is just like Vulcan being destroyed. -Saving Raycaon is done in a similar sequence as saving Earth. (Karrel goes aboard the Grox ship and massacres everyone by sneaking in through the back door.)

So yeah, why not change Karrel to be like that?