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

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)

1. 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?
2. The B'Saari of B'Saari II. The B'Saari made first contact with the Denobulans sometime prior to the 19th century, so they've been around a while. (ENT: "Future Tense") They've also experimented Dr. Frankenstein-style with reviving the dead! (ENT: "Horizon") Why does my brain imagine they're blue? What alien concepts did they introduce to the Denobulans? Do they use dilithium, artificial singularities, or one of the wacky Delta Quadrant-forms of propulsion? How many lungs do they have?
3. The Byzallians. Busy professionals, the Byzallians were planning to hold a conference on Deep Space 9 in 2371, according to background chatter unrelated to the plot. (DS9: "Defiant") Friendly enough to the Federation, were they in the vicinity of Bajor or was this conference a hike? How tall are the Byzallians, how many children do they typically have? Do they lay eggs? How many fingers do they have?

4. 

   Dachlyd. Pterodactyl.
   Am I the only one
   who thinks it?
   

   The Camorites of Camor V. Those nasty Cardassians left many Camorites orphaned c. 2358 during the Cardassian Wars (fought between Cardassia and the Federation c. 2347-2366), leaving Picard's brief flame Miranda Vigo to host a school for them and her son Jason. (TNG: "Bloodlines") We never see the Camorites, but their government seems all but destroyed by the Cardassian wars. A handful of aliens live on the planet - suggesting some level of interstellar activity.
5. The Gemarians of Gemaris V and the Dachlyds of Dachlyd. Both described as extremely stubborn, Captain Picard once mediated a trade agreement between these neighbors in 2366. (TNG: "Captain's Holiday") I feel like Dachlyds would resemble Pterodactyls, or is that just me? 
   
   
1. Bonus Reference: Deep Space 9's Lt. Vilix'pran was quite the family man, having between 8 and 18 hatchlings, known for getting their wings tangled, but we never learned his species. Maybe he was a Dachlyd? Just a thought... 

For an exhaustive list, you can also check out Memory Alpha's Alpha and Beta Quadrant species list.

It's October 1, 2020, and season two of Star Trek: Lower Decks is probably already written. But I am loving the show! It is exactly the kind of humor I wish I could have with other die-hard Star Trek fans in real life, but it's still funny to someone who's not a Star Trek trivia nerd like me.

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