#kzinti

[vintagegeekculture]

Bob Eggleton

[chernobog13]

The Kzinti, longtime opponents of humanity in numerous stories by Larry Niven, made their onscreen debut in The Slaver Weapon, episode 14 of the first season of Star Trek: The Animated Series.

The science fiction grandmaster himself adapted one of his short stories as the basis for the episode.

For those unfamiliar with the Kzinti, they have warred for a long time in Niven's Known Universe stories. The Known Universe is the setting for many of Niven's stories, including the Hugo Award winner Ringworld.

Niven has made the Known Universe a shared universe, and many other authors have contributed their own stories about the conflict between humanity and the Kzinti. Most, if not all, of the Kzinti stories have been collected in the paperback series The Man-Kzin Wars. To date there have been fifteen volumes in the series, as well as several novels.

As evidenced in these screenshots, this episode gave Filmation plenty of opportunity to use the pink paint it seemed to love so much when making Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Also noteworthy about this episode is that only three Enterprise crew members are featured: Spock, Sulu and Uhura. Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Chapel are not seen. However, James ("Scotty") Doohan provides the voices for the Kzinti, and Majel ("Chapel") Barrett-Roddenberry voices the computer.

The Enterprise herself is not seen either. Instead, Spock and the others are traveling by shuttlecraft when the story opens.

[stra-tek]

There is so much to unpack here. From the Federation Reference Series (an unofficial expansion of the old Star Fleet Technical Manual), we have Admiral Kirk leading a task force against the Kzinti in the first of two 5-year-missions between The Motion Picture and Wrath of Khan, and a whole new Enterprise commanding officer in Commodore Gregory Westlake. For six years!

[foodcu-be]

the fav STA npcs

[lizdoestheart]

my star trek oc in her kzinti regalia !!

recently discovered the niche, underrepresented star trek group called the kzinti. needless to say this is my current hyperfixation and im gonna make craaaaazy lore for their culture n shit

[swedebeast]

Sometimes you just find interesting old websites (or maybe even webzones) from the day. Like this one.

"Welcome to the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE, where thousands of people boldly explore new worlds and new situations every day.

As is readily apparent, the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE is based on The Original Series of Star Trek, and is produced under contracts with Paramount and with Franz Joseph Designs. While not necessarily "canon trek", the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE is a rich and vast playground, and is more consistent than the literary equivalents. It has to be, since the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE is home to a number of game systems, and gamers tend to get upset if we change the rules, history, background, and technology every time a fiction writer needs a new plot device. We do, by the way, publish a lot of fiction in our CAPTAIN'S LOG series, some of which is regarded as among the best published for this genre."

It is something of a forgotten part of the lore that the Kzin are quote unquote "canon" to the Star Trek universe. As well as the Lyrans which body fucking talks about these days.

And you know it is old school when it is Pre-TNG Klingons.

[wisteriaclaw]

guys... GUYSSSS... i finally finished all the ref sheets for my star trek ocs!!!!! i literally finished all the fullbodies at the end of LAST JUNE and it took me UNTIL NOW to finish all the fucking REF SHEETS they pretty much all already need redesigns and i hate them (i probably would have finished them in like. a week. if i hadnt been in the middle of moving)

THEY PRETTY MIUCH ALL HAVE A GLARING DESIGN FLAW OR TWO AUGHHHHH DOTN EAT ME.. anyways they all live on a starbase bordering Klingon territory which is both an important strategic point and unimportant enough that people who are not as well suited to starfleet are sent there...

Ch'ral - Klingon diplomat. idk if that even exists but shes pretty much been exiled and forced to do diplomat stuff.. make sure relations are ok with the starbase... whatever. she is a trans girl and half kzinti and she tries to stay distant from everyone on the station (but she fails miserably and makes friends eventually) (ref finished july 1 2024)

Lt. Soren aka my star trek sona!!!! they r older than me i guess. they are kind of feral but brilliant. they are not good with people and tend to wander off on away missions so they were reassigned to the starbase to continue their research. they were raised by their vulcan mother, and have taken some vulcan philosophies to heart (they dont try to hide their emotions but they do try to regulate them). their best friend is Ensign Jek and they love hanging around Dr. Lenar. tend to be a silent observer in a lot of social situations. they have arthritis and have to take immunosuppressant hyposprays (ref finished july 4 2024)

Dr. Koras Lenar - Cardassian who has almost completely rejected Cardassia. she never talks about her past. she moved to earth to go to medical school and then get starfleet training. she lost her leg before moving to earth, and actually prefers to use a wheelchair instead of a prosthetic. she has a black cat. she is often grumpy and somewhat detached, but she has grown to care a lot about the people on the station (ref finished july 11 2024)(also yea i KNOW i did not give her a chula or chuva I DID NOT KNOW THE FANON YET I RUSHED THESE FOR ARTFIGHT. SOBS.)

Lt. Kelan Rexa - Betazoid security chief. he is very autistic and he HATES talking out loud, prefers to speak telepathically (so he HATES talking to psi-null species and the computer). shes kind of an asshole, and her telepathic ability is scarily powerful. they have a weird pred/prey dynamic with Lt. M'rea (that awkward moment when you call the girl who is trying to eat you imzadi) (ref finished august 4 2024)

Lt. Nyarra M'rea - Caitian Chief Engineer. she is very good at engineering but too unhinged for a starship. she loves toying with Rexa, knowing full well he could probably destroy her mind in an instant if he wanted to. um ig i dont have many thoughts abt her.. shes just a freak car (ref finished august 14 2024)

Grell - Ferengi salesman with an exotic animal shop. he used to be a Damon, he covered up the tattoo but he often just covers both with makeup. he is like if Quark and Garak had a hate child with each of their worst qualities (ref finished november 17 2024)

Ensign Jek - Trans Ferengi ensign. it started out with him disguising himself as a male so that hed have rights and shit but he fit into the role better than hed have imagined. Soren's best friend, they went to Starfleet Academy together. he is kind of airheaded and anxious and tends to get himself into Situations (ref finished TODAY, april 27 2025)

ig its mostly the ferengis that i struggled with... wuff. i think i struggled with them when i was making all the fullbodies too. ANYWAYS. yayy

[nonbinary-bosmer]

The Kzinti telepath from The Slaver Weapon would absolutely let themselves get him by a trans-your-gender beam.

Look at the face of this creature and tell me they’re not absolutely craving to be a “dumb animal” catgirl