Star Trek ABC Game WITH Descriptions

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N - Nausicaans are a strong and typically violent race. The name appears to be an allusion to Nausicaa from Homer's Odyssey, a woman whose name means "burner of ships."

In the 22nd century, before the founding of the Federation, Nausicaan pirates were a significant threat to human freighters, and the early Starfleet spent much of its time on watch for Nausicaan pirates. This included a raid on the ECS Fortunate, a civilian cargo freighter, in 2151. This was detailed in the Enterprise episode "Fortunate Son".

In 2327, a young ensign Jean-Luc Picard was stabbed in the back by a gang of three Nausicaans in a bar fight at the Bonestell Recreation Facility at Starbase Earhart, requiring the replacement of his heart with an artificial one. This event was depicted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, "Tapestry," in Season 6.

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O - Opaka was the spiritual leader of Bajor in the latter days of the Cardassian Occupation and the early days of Bajor's independence from Cardassian rule. One of the most respected figures in the Bajoran culture, Opaka was left in the Gamma Quadrant in 2369.

Opaka was born under Cardassian rule during the half-century long occupation of the her world. As an adult, she rose to great prominence among the Bajoran spiritual community, eventually becoming Kai.

Constantly working to protect her people and serve the will of the Prophets, Opaka became a revered figure among her people. During the last decade of the Occupation, however, she secretly collaborated with the Cardassians. Opaka sent Prylar Bek to inform them of the location of a Bajoran Resistance cell in the Kendra Valley. This saved the lives of 1,200 other Bajorans, but Opaka sacrificed her son in the process – as a member of the cell, he was killed in the resulting massacre. Opaka's involvement was never discovered, even after Prylar Bek made a full confession. Vedek Bareil lost the kaiship to keep secret the fact she had sacrificed her son and his group in order to save hundreds of civilians from retribution.

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P - Preservers

In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Preservers are an ancient race of aliens who visited Earth thousands of years ago and removed some human specimens from the planet. The aliens then "seeded" these humans on other planets within the galaxy that had similar Earth-like environments.

No one is sure why the aliens did this, and most speculate that it was part of a great experiment to test the adaptability of humans, who the aliens believed would one day serve as their replacements. It appears that the Preservers themselves were a dying race and no longer exist. The only evidence of their culture are ancient artifacts and ruins that litter various humanoid worlds. Many races that have been encountered have a sketchy pre-history, some unable to explain their sudden appearance on their worlds, while other cultures have clearly documented evidence that they are not native to their home planets.

The Preservers are discussed explicitly in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Paradise Syndrome", in which Preserver technology inadvertently (and temporarily) erases Captain Kirk's memory, and the amnesiac Kirk settles down in a Preserver-seeded society of Native Americans. Although popular in fan fiction, the Preservers are never again featured in explicit canon. In the Star Trek Voyager episode "Natural Law" an unidentified race that may be the Preservers erects a forcefield to protect an indigenous culture on a Delta Quadrant planet. The idea that the Preservers are the "Ancient Humanoid" aliens featured in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Chase" is uncertain and debated amongst Star Trek fans. Although their "seeding" actions seem to parallel that of the Preservers, the Ancient Humanoids may in fact be a different culture entirely, as they were active billions of years before the actions of the Preservers. Screenwriter Ronald Moore has reportedly stated that the two races are, in fact, the same.

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Q -Quen was a Prylar of the Bajoran Religion during the time of the Cardassian occupation of Bajor.

After Kira Taban's death, Furel asked Kira Nerys if she wanted Quen to say a few words at her father's funeral.

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R - Remans are natives of the planet Remus, resembling bats. They were first introduced in the movie Star Trek Nemesis. According to the film's backstory, they were subjugated ever since the Romulans staked claim and set up their new homeworld in the system. Since Remus is tidally locked with the system's primary star, the species lives in constant darkness, and so the Remans are extremely sensitive to light.

It was never made clear if the Remans were the original inhabitants, or were a mutated offshoot of the original Vulcan colonists, or the result of interbreeding between the original Vulcan colonists and the original inhabitants of Romulus or Remus. Though grotesque, their morphological constitution has much in common with their possible Vulcan progenitors, such as pointed ears, limited telepathic powers, and greater physical strength and endurance than most humanoid species.

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S - Surmak Ren was a Bajoran male who was born on Bajor in 2319 to Surmak Hoek and Surmak Stimson. Surmak graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Bajor in 2342, genetic programming being his major field of study.

Following his graduation, Surmak was a member of the Akira Advanced Genetics Research Unit where he was recognized for his work in viral function studies. In 2351 he worked as an assistant to Dekon Elig, who created the aphasia virus booby trap.

Surmak was later suspected by Cardassian Intelligence of supporting various Bajoran terrorist groups including the Kohn-Ma. Surmak was later arrested when informants in the Higa Metar revealed that he was a secret member of that sect and was responsible for several disruptive acts committed by that sect. He was arrested several times in early 2356, but released for insufficient evidence. He was convicted of terrorist activity by the Cardassian Regional Court in 2357 on charges of terrorist activity stemming from the kidnapping of Gul Spumco. Later that year, he was imprisoned on Velos VII.

Surmak was later repatriated to Bajor on stardate 46302.8, where he became chief administrator of the Ilvian Medical Complex. That year, the aphasia virus, which had previously been planted on Terok Nor during the Occupation of Bajor, was inadvertently activated by the crew of Deep Space 9.

In order to save the crew, Major Kira Nerys contacted Surmak to inquire about an antidote. At first he was reluctant to help, but Kira kidnapped him and transported him onto the station. This caused him to become infected as well, thus forcing him to develop an antidote.

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T- Tamarians are a bald, orange, humanoid species of the Alpha Quadrant who speak primarily (if not entirely) by metaphor. Their metaphoric language is based on the Tamarian ancient history, making it virtually incomprehensible to anyone without background knowledge of the history. It is also inferred that they have limited, or no, concept of individuality. They are a highly advanced species capable of space travel, though to what degree is unknown.

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U - Ungtae was a Bajoran vedek and a member of the Vedek Assembly in 2375. According to Quark, who was running a betting pool on the succession, Ungtae was favored to become the next kai after Kai Winn Adami was killed by Gul Dukat.

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V - Voth are a reptilian humanoid species descended from Earth's dinosaurs, most likely a Hadrosaurid. The Voth escaped Earth when the environment was wrecked by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago. They travelled across the galaxy, eventually settling in the Delta Quadrant. The Voth are extremely advanced technically, possessing transwarp drive systems.

Voth territory seems to be in close proximity to Borg space. The Borg have been able to assimilate individual Voth (see the Voth page of Memory Alpha), but the technology of the Voth civilization seems at least as advanced as that of the Borg, and (given the relative ages of the two species) may be considerably more advanced. Whatever the case, they have obviously managed to avoid wide-scale assimilation (no easy feat). The Voth's contact with the Borg may have contributed to their strong antipathy towards mammalian humanoids.

As a society, the Voth are dogmatic recluses who have spun a fictional story ("The Doctrine") about their own past in order to create social cohesion. Although they have been away from Earth for 65 million years and have achieved much technologically, they have never been able to establish a permanent planetary home. The Voth have at least one enormous city ship for housing their government (and possibly a large portion of their civilization).

In the 24th century, the Voth leadership threatened to destroy the crew of Voyager and a rogue Voth scientist, if they refused to disavow evidence that the Voth originated on Earth. This was the so-called "Distant Origin" theory. At the close of contact between the Voth and Humans in the 24th Century, it was not considered hopeful that the two sister species would reunify anytime soon.

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W - Weld Ram was a Bajoran scientist who worked with Mora Pol in 2370. He received a minor injury during an away mission to L-S VI searching for shapeshifter life that might shed light on Odo's origins.

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X - Xaranites are a reptilian humanoid species, they are never fully seen, but have green scaled faces. Xaranites work for the Cardassians as smugglers. It is possible that Xaranites are a subjugate species of the Cardassian Union, which may explain why a Xaranite captain allowed Sisko to search his cargo when Gul Dukat ordered him to.

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Y - Yarka was a former member of the Vedek Assembly. In 2371, several Cardassian scientists came to the Bajoran sector in an attempt to establish permanent communications to the Gamma Quadrant through the Bajoran wormhole. Yarka became convinced that Trakor's Third Prophecy was coming true and that the Celestial Temple would be destroyed. He urged Commander Benjamin Sisko not to assist the Cardassians in this venture, though Sisko ultimately chose not to follow Yarka's warnings.

After the wormhole was not destroyed, Yarka concluded that he had misinterpreted the prophecy and apologised to Sisko for allowing his mistrust of the Cardassians to blind him to the Prophets' will. He did, however, add that there were signs that Trakor's Fourth Prophecy would soon come to pass.

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Z - Zetaran Life Forms are seen in the original series episode The Lights of Zetar, the Zetarans once lived on doomed planet, Zetar. They went out into space and would kill people who would resist them. The Zetarans need solid species to live in, if you resist you will be killed. The Zetarans wiped out everyone on the library planetoid, Memory Alpha.

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A - Alenis Grem was a Bajoran who worked in the Bajoran Central Archives in the 24th century. In 2371, she conducted a study on the Elemspur detention center for the Archives. She discovered that the Archives said that Kira Nerys was at Elemspur for seven days in 2361. Alenis contacted Kira to tell her. The two arranged to meet. Kira never reached the meeting point, as she was captured by the Obsidian Order.

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B - Ba'ku people were a technologically advanced humanoid civilization. In the early 21st century, the race developed the means of building weapons of mass destruction and was on the brink of self-annihilation. A small enlightened group of the Ba'ku people escaped this horror and found an isolated planet.

This group of Ba'ku followed a simple way of life and disdained the use of technology. (As shown in the film Star Trek: Insurrection, however, the Ba'ku still possessed some form of technology and the ability to use it in emergencies, since they had attempted to repair the damaged Data.) At first the Ba'ku were unaware of the metaphasic radiation in the planet's rings, which caused their aging process to significantly decelerate, although it was later discovered and cherished.

The Ba'ku society consisted of strong bonds between each individual as there were less than a thousand living in a village. Their simpler way of life eventually prompted some of the younger Ba'ku villagers - who wanted to explore the galaxy with offlanders - to rebel against their elders, and an attempt was made to take over the village. When they were unsuccessful, they were exiled and eventually became the Son'a people.

In 2375 peace on the Ba'ku planet was restored, and several members of the Son'a returned to their families.