The Major Alien Races in Star Trek

Currently the information about Alpha and Beta Quadrant are mainly links to other servers. The information about the Delta Quadrant contains bits and pieces I picked up from the Voyager episodes so far. At this point I don't have any information on the Gamma Quadrant on-line. In the light of upcoming DS9 episodes (02/97) I hope to get some information on-line soon.

Other good web pages to check about ST alien cultures are:

• The Races and Civilisations section of the Bajoran Archives
• The Lost Races of Star Trek by Andrea Izzotti
• The Mini-FAQ: Federation Member Worlds maintained by S C Q Askew.
• The FAQL on Star Trek Aliens posted in rec.arts.startrek.misc by Otto Heuer.
• The Warbird Empire, the ultimate guide races in the Star Trek universe.

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The Aliens of the Alpha Quadrant

The Vulcans (subpage of the Star Trek Universe Companion)

The Cardassians:

The Official Cardassian Web Page

The Cardassian Oracle an on-line newsletter of alt.startrek.cardassian

The Bajorans:

The Bajoran Archives (including the Bajoran Encyclopedia)

The Prophets' Path (more encyclopedia-style pages on Bajor)

Kira Nerys Page

A Bajor Page (including info on Cardassia)

The Ferengi:

The Ferengi (subpage of the Star Trek Universe Companion)

The Ferengi Rules of Aquisition.

The Tholians:

All about Tholians (info from the Omnipedia, The Nitpicker's Guide and The Worlds of the Federation)

The Children of Tarma (appears in the ST:TNG episode Darmok:

The Darmok Dictionary).

The Andorians:

``Andorians are blue aliens with antennae.'' [from HACKMAN's TOS guide]

Appear in: TOS episodes ``Journey to Babel'', ``Whom Gods Destroy'', ``Gamesters of Triskellion '' (one of Kirk's opponents was an Andorian). TNG episode ``The Offspring'': Data's daughter decides on the holodeck which species she wants to be.

Andorian Home Page

The Tellarites:

``Tellarites are snout-nosed aliens, hot to pick a fight with Sarek over his vote in the upcoming vote of whether or not to let some dilithium-rich planet into the federation.'' [from HACKMAN's TOS guide]

Appear in: TOS episode ``Journey to Babel''.

See also: Tellarites Home Page

The Gorns:

A race of humanoids with strong reptilian traits (especially the head); very strong but rather slow moving; attacked a colony on Cestus III because they considered it an intrusion into their area of space. Their ships seem to be not quite as fast as the Enterprise (the big E managed to catch up with the vessel).

Source: The TOS episode ``Arena''.

See also: Gorn Home Page

Lost races of Star Trek Original Series

The Aliens of the Beta Quadrant

tlhIngan Dochmey:

The Klingon Language Institute

North Star Klingon Home Page with an on-line Klingon/English phrasebook

A Page including an introductory course on Klingon (in German)

toDbaj's Home Page

Joel Anderson's Klingon language page with many original translations.

Klingon Home World Page (containing a Klingon Historical Timeline)

The Klingons (subpage of the Star Trek Universe Companion)

Klingon Imperial Diplomatic Corps Home Page

Something about the Romulans:

The Romulan Web

The Romulan Empire (part of the TOS TrekMUSE universe); contains a Chronology of the Romulan Empire

The Romulan Star Empire RSE Inc. Home Page

The Romulan International Empire

The Romulans (subpage of the Star Trek Universe Companion)

The Aliens of the Delta Quadrant

• Borg: Their home world is somewhere in the Delta Quadrant. The Borg are known from ST:TNG but they didn't appear in the first season of Voyager. The first concrete hint of Borg presence was given in Unity an epsiode in the third season. The Borg made their main appearance in the third to fourth season cliffhanger Scorpion, where they are fighting a war against a powerful race they call Species 8472. More info about the Borg can be found at:
  • The Borg (subpage of the Star Trek Universe Companion)
  • A Borg Home Page
• Kazon: The main enemies of Voyager (Caretaker, State of Flux, Initiations, Maneuvers,Alliances).

  They are a race of warriors, split into many sects. Each sect is headed by a Maje. The number of sects changes `almost every day'. In Initiations (stardate 49005.3) it is mentioned that there are 18 sects in total. The Kazon gained independence about 26 years ago (probably that was the time when Jal Sankur united the Kazon sects). From their hatred towards uniform-bearing individuals as on Voyager one might conclude that they have been surpressed by a race with a similar military system as we know it from the Federation (perhaps the Trabe?). They don't have transporter technology.

  The most powerful sects are the Kazon-Ogla (Caretaker; First Maje Jal Razik) and the Kazon-Relora (Maneuvers; First Maje Jal Haron). The Kazon-Nistrim (with Seska; First Maje Jal Culluh) are a rather small sect that hopes to gain power by using Voyager's technology. Other sects mentioned in Maneuvers are the Kazon-Hobii [sp?] (First Maje Jal Lorah), the Kazon-Mostral (First Maje Jal Surat) and the Kazon-Oglamar (First Maje Jal Valek). The Kazon-Pommar (First Maje Jal Mennis) are in control of the planet Sobras. The Kazon-Sari have been mentioned but not shown.

• Trabe: The Trabe (Alliances) had enslaved the Kazons for a long time on the Trabe's homeworld. They were a powerful economic force in the area and none of their trading partners wanted to speak out against the harsh conditions of the Kazon holding areas, lest economic sanctions be imposed. Over 30 years ago, the Kazons revolted against the Trabe and sought to punish all of their species.
• Ocampa: Kes's race. It was previously protected by the Caretaker (he thought that he had to pay a debt to them);
• The Vidiian Sodality: The race being haunted by the phage virus (Phage, Faces). It has highly developed medical skills but overall technology is about an even match with that of the Federation (in ``The Phage'' it is shown that both starships have obtain the same maximal speed).
• Sikarians: The main race in Prime Factors. It is technologically far advanced. By using a space folding technology it is possible to travel instantenously over up to 40000 light years. They refuse to help Voyager based on their version of a `Prime Directive'.
• Baneans: Only appear in Ex Post Facto. They are at war with the Numiri
• Uhnori: The main race in Emanations. It is not advanced (non-space travelling).
• ???: The main race in Time and Again (non-space-travelling); destroyed itself (by the use of polaric energy) in an alternate timeline.
• Talax: Neelix's race (also appeared in Faces). This race's background is elaborated in Jetrel. It has been defeated by the Haakonians around 2356.
• Haakon: They have once been at war with the Talaxians (Jetrel). A new weapon (the `Metrion Cascade') was used to destroy Rynax, a moon (with colonies) of the Talaxian home planet. After this the Talaxians surrendered.
• Briori: An alien race which abducted more than 300 people from Earth in 1937 and brought them to this planet as slaves ("37's"). The race itself has never been shown but only talked about.
• Pralor: A race that built highly advanced robots to fight a war against the Cravic. After ending the war the robots `terminated' their Builders (Prototype). Although they are sentinent beings, they can't reproduce and they are still fighting a war against the robots of the Cravic. They seem to be technologically far more advanced than Voyager.
• Cravic: see Pralor. Also extinguished.
• Aquitarians: A race with a rather authoritarian form of government. In Chute they showed a very limited willingness to settle differences with Voyager peacefully. This might hint at a more general xenophobic attitude. In fights with Voyager they didn't seriously damage the vessel, so it seems that their weapons systems are inferior to those of the Federation. The existence of a group of freedom fighters, the Open Sky movement, clearly shows that part of the population feels oppressed by the current government.
• Krenim: A civilization with sophisticated temporal technology (in Year of Hell). See also the Krenim page.

The ominous Q:

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Links to other servers containing more information about Aliens (covering mainly Alpha and Beta Quadrant):

• Information about the aliens in Star Trek in general is available on the Surrey Server.
• Tim Lynch's Star Trek Reviews, including Voyager
• The Star Trek: Voyager Episode Guide on Deep Web Nine
• Hype's Star Trek Poll has a section about Aliens in ST:TNG (it gives a one line description for almost all alien races that appeared).
• A section of the Star Trek Universe Companion deals with alien races in all ST series
• The Encounters subpage of the Paramount Voyager page deals with new races encountered by Voyager.