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Canon taur species?

damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
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Are thee any canon centaur like species in Trek?
A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
"Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.

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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    No.
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    edited November 2017
    There are not many sapient non-humanoid species in Trek, but definitely no centaurs. If you are looking for something akin to TES "beastraces" or similiar, there are Caitians (cats), Anticans (dogs), Selay (snakes), Gorn (lizards?), Antedians (fish) and some with distinct but less obvious features sich as Tellarites (pigs), Grazerites (bovid-esque), Saurians (duh), Xindi (insectoids, reptilians, aquatics, avians and primates)​, Voth (direct descendants of Earth dinosaurs, sorta, kinda)...

    There are also dolphins. Those navigate starships of the UFP pig-1.gif​​
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  • damzelltrilldamzelltrill Member Posts: 443 Arc User
    kay thanks must be thinking of a star wars race then
    A Trill, a Gorn, a Jem'Hadar, Bejoran and a Voth walk into a bar, and the Bartender asks "What is this a Joke?"
    "Nope, just my away team" the trill replies before ordering a round for the bar.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    that or David Weber's Heir of Empire... The aliens known variously as the Achu'ultani or Narhani were rather large centaur/reptile things.
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited November 2017
    angrytarg wrote: »
    Voth (direct descendants of Earth dinosaurs, sorta, kinda)...

    @angrytarg Noooo, noo, no. Voth are direct results of certain evolution. You see you take a creature, add in no factors about environment, climate, competing creatures, social pressures or so on, and add only a time frame, and et voilà, you get a Voth.

    Star Trek, on top of the science game since 1966.​​
    Post edited by artan42 on
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
    #TASforSTO


    '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
    'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
    '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    If there are any canon centaur species, then it would be in TAS. The closest we ever got was Species 8472. Star Trek seems to focus on humanoid races rather than truly alien races due to production costs.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    starkaos wrote: »
    If there are any canon centaur species, then it would be in TAS. The closest we ever got was Species 8472. Star Trek seems to focus on humanoid races rather than truly alien races due to production costs.

    It's not the only reason. I can't imagine the Horta broke the bank.​​
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
    #TASforSTO


    '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
    'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
    '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    Heh, that's the reason I became an ecologist. But applying my Trek knowledge to my exams didn't turn out to be a good idea. We aren't quite there yet...
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    ^ Memory Alpha.org is not canon. It's a open wiki with arbitrary rules. Only what can be cited from an episode is. ^
    "No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
    "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,687 Community Moderator
    There IS a species, besides the Undine, that is tripedal that was in TAS, but nothing like what you asked about in the OP.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    There's some weirder stuff in some of the novels. Star Trek Titan has a species resembling armless theropod dinosaurs that was cybernetically uplifted by a precursor species, including adding prosthetic arms.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,687 Community Moderator
    starswordc wrote: »
    There's some weirder stuff in some of the novels. Star Trek Titan has a species resembling armless theropod dinosaurs that was cybernetically uplifted by a precursor species, including adding prosthetic arms.

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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • icerose20icerose20 Member Posts: 18,379 Arc User
    edited November 2017
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Hunh, apparently David Weber never commissioned an official artwork of what Achu'ultani/Narhani are supposed to look like.
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  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    angrytarg wrote: »
    Heh, that's the reason I became an ecologist. But applying my Trek knowledge to my exams didn't turn out to be a good idea. We aren't quite there yet...

    Sadly, applying knowledge from your exams to Star Trek isn't very helpful either. But +rep for ecology.

    Also, we do have a tar creature...
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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    artan42 wrote: »
    starkaos wrote: »
    If there are any canon centaur species, then it would be in TAS. The closest we ever got was Species 8472. Star Trek seems to focus on humanoid races rather than truly alien races due to production costs.

    It's not the only reason. I can't imagine the Horta broke the bank.

    Oddly enough the geology department didn't give me the necessary funding to take the physics departments cold fusion device into Mt Etna to see if I could turn it off.​​
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
    JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
    #TASforSTO


    '...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
    'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
    'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
    '...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
    'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
    '...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek

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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
    The best source for nonhumanoid sapient life forms is written SF, because there's no such thing as a budget. That gives us such wonders as Niven's puppeteers, several of the species encountered in James White's Sector General stories (from the six-legged, elephantine Tralthan FGLIs to the Cinrusskin GLNOs that resemble a cross between a spider and a butterfly to the Kelgian DBLFs that look remarkably like a twenty-foot caterpillar on out to the VUXG doctor Conway had to deal with once, whose species resembles nothing so much as a pale white prune floating in a sphere of syrup - they're telepathic and psychokinetic, hence the V prefix, with some limited precognition, and are so extremely humble that they tend to look down upon those younger races who haven't yet learned to be as humble as they are), and even the Hamalki of Diane Duane's Trek novel The Wounded Sky (which look like crystal spiders with spiky shells).

    For Trek canon, as has been noted, available species are limited by production budgets. It's a lot cheaper to slap a rubber forehead on a human actor than to CGI up something completely nonhuman.
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    Especially since full CGI aliens that interact with human actors are never believeable, at least to me they always look like they're pasted in from a Videogame. Only case it works is when the world is so colourfull even the actors look surreal at times (Marvel films for example)
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    ^ Memory Alpha.org is not canon. It's a open wiki with arbitrary rules. Only what can be cited from an episode is. ^
    "No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
    "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
    #TASforSTO
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    icerose20 wrote: »
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    Another good one from Diane Duane was the Sulamid, essentially a land-dwelling cephalopod with the tentacles on the upper side. She had one on the Enterprise in My Enemy, My Ally, along with a recurring Horta character (Lieutenant Naraht).
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
    Ah, good ol' Naraht. I'll never forget his terrible case of indigestion after eating through a durasteel door... :smile:
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  • shevetshevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User
    There were a whole bunch of aliens who were just occupying the benches on the Federation Council in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and FASA worked up a supplement based on that film, and I think their interpretation of one of the alien species was centauroid... now, what was the name, what was the name...? Got it. The Ariolo. Might be the closest thing to a canon centaur you're going to get (although I recall the Dave Deitrick illustrations in the supplement didn't look all that close to the glimpses we saw on screen.)
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