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Faceless races for Star Trek: Lower Decks to animate to their heart's content

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While Star Trek has created an incredibly intricate and mostly  internally consistent universe, some episodes through the years have referenced a species in a throwaway line never to return to them again. Now that Star Trek: Lower Decks  has a blank canvas to design species without the constraint of makeup budgets, here are a few unseen races with fairly little defining background that the writers could choose to flesh out - or create a killer look, slap an existing name on it and build the canon. Unnamed "Ape Face" from  Nimbus III (Star Trek V) The Demerians . Mayweather's family was set to make a delivery of stromatopod larvae to the Demerians in 2153. (ENT: "Horizon") So they were spacefaring and friendly in Earth's neighborhood pretty early. Were they even bipeds? How many sexes did they have? Did they eat the larvae, or why did they need Humans (the snail mail of the era) to deliver them? The B'Saari of B'Saari II . The B'Saari made first c...