You're going in my will, this was driving me crazy. OK, this has ben driving me nuts, and Google's no help, so somebody PLEASE, what are the details of that race from the PC game Star Trek Borg that could enter a "pain trance" in which basically the pain receptors shut down until a task is completed, then the person goes unconscious to recover? The leade character in the game get sput in the body of one of these guys by Q. Please help.
Hell, a complete list of all the book/game races would be cool, but I'm not naieve.
Well, I know that "Starfleet Academy" featured a race called the Venturi with purple butterfly-shaped ships that flew 'upright'...
It always amazes me how they go and invent zillions more races rather than flesh out one of the existing obscure ones, like the Tzenkethi or Talarians.
Oh, and one of the DS9 shoot-'em-ups featured the deadly dangerous Grigari, though they also appear (in various forms) in books by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stephens.
What about those from the comics?
Gold Key Comics
Star Trek #7 (The Voodoo Planet)
Voodooites - Pre-warp humanoids who can perform voodoo
DC Comics
Star Trek #19 (Chekov's Choice)
Eebrix - Unseen, but described as a hive colony with one mind
Illusionists - Telepathic race able to influence the crew's minds, but not the Eebrix
Star Trek Annual #1 (All Those Years Ago...)
Tralmanii - Insectoid, need the radiation of a nova to survive, has a technology that can analyze & improve on alien technologies.
Voodooites? Now THAT'S cheesy!
Brian Webber, you're thinking of the Bijani. The character you are referring to was named Coris Sprint, probably an homage/product placement for the phone company, as I can recall that a CD with their internet service on it was included with the Borg CD's. Supposedly, the Bijani came from Bijan II a near exact recreation of Bijan, their original homeworld which was destroyed in a supernova or something. I think the guy who played sprint might have been the same guy that played Ayala on Voyager, though I'm not sure.
THANK YOU! You're going in my will, this was driving me crazy.
There are zillions of races that only show up in the books, including some quite powerful ones. Off the top of my head:
Peter David's books: Thallonians, Danteri, Penzatti, Nelkarites, Prometheans, Redeemers, Alphans, Brikar, Hermat, Selelvians, Shgin, Kreel.
"Invasion" books: Furies (666 races), Viroids.
"Day of Honour" books: Emmonac, Narr, Seniards (or that might be a human colony world - not sure)
"Foreign Foes": The Hidran (I mention because they're portrayed as a powerful foe of the Klingons, yet (strangely) one we never see on the TV series).
Gold Key Comics
Star Trek #17 (The Cosmic Cavemen)
Unnamed race from planet Neesan - Primitive humanoids, one, Lok, had psychic abilities that allowed her to see Spock on a distant planet
DC Comics
Star Trek #5 (Mortal Gods)
Unnamed race from Beta Epsilon VI - Primitive purple hominids, big eyes rat or goat like faces.
Star Trek #17 (The D'Artagnan Three)
Unnamed race from Cetus 5 - Water-dwelling fish-faced hominids, no space travel capability, but had 'wetsuits' to allow them to walk out of water, moved to some other planet because theirs was dying
Star Trek #49 [2nd Series]
Thevosians
Star Trek: The Next Generation #39-44 I think they were in all 6 issues
Sztazzan
Star Trek: The Next Generation #52 & 53
Thuranian
Philadians
Kartakkan
Beta Minhorrian? - guessing on name, said to come from Beta Minhorri V
Star Trek: The Next Generation #56
Sakerionites - members of the Federation
Eregeans
JAL - Voodooites? Now THAT'S cheesy!
True, but Koenig calling a race Illusionists was also cheesy, or just plain lazy.
BTW didn't Marvel have some space Gnomes appear in a Star Trek comic?
Yup. It was in #16.
Live long and prosper.
Don't let Berman & Braga see these comics...they may actually do them on "Enterprise"!
I felt the Space Voodoo storyline from Gold Key #7 would translate rather easily to Voyager or Enterprise.
John: Considering the stuff they're doing now, I'm not so sure them borrowing these ideas would be anything less than an improvement.
Xenexians (Mac Calhoun's race) from the New Frontier books
What about the Syntagus Theluvians from the NextGen comics?
The Grigari only show up in J&GRS books.
No, they also appeared in a DS9 shoot-'em-up game, I forget the title. I suppose that might have been co-written by J&GRS, because you're right - they do seem to be a J&GRS invention. Although they're completely different in "Federation" and "DS9: Millennium" - it's the "Millennium" Grigari who appear in the game.
Yeah, I think I wrote that up as a nit against Millenium.
Millennium.
DC Comics
Star Trek #58-60 [2nd Series]
Harahni - humanoid
T'gai (extinct)
Star Trek #62 [2nd Series]
Wumpar - somekinda furry race
DC Comics
Star Trek: The Next Generation #62
Talquosians - green, bald isolationists that have just begun allowing outsiders to visit
Thrakkites - hard to describe thick-necked hominids that are said to be members of the Federation
The race in the Borg PC game that entered a "pain trance" were called the Bijani. The character you play in the game is of that race and the fact that you can enter those trances helps you to evenually win the game, *if* you make the right decisions.
Also, one of my favorite non-canon races in Trek were the Chodak, and they were used in TNG: A Final Unity, and briefly in the game based on Generations. In A Final Unity, the Chodak you meet are descendants of the original Chodak Empire, which once spanned the Milky Way Galaxy some 900,000 years before. They are a physically weak and fragile race, and they utilize "battle shells" that use anti-grav units to move them from place to place. The shells also provide them with a life support system as well as personal defensive and offensive systems. At first, the Enterprise crew had thought the Chodak were extinct, and it comes as a surprise when you and your away team encounter them.
I wonder if this race could be created for a show or movie, now that we can do incredible things with CGI. But seeing how Jar Jar Binks was such a failure for Star Wars, maybe only real people should act in Star Trek, what with the makeup and prosthetic effects that have already been done.