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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...

Site of the Day: "Five Jobs Everyone Should Experience" - a blog or something I found randomly googling. A conversation I had today, mixed with an episode of How I Met Your Mother, led me to think: where could I be in 5 years, if not teaching/in government? Well, I remember Hillary Clinton once saying she worked on a fishing ship: WTF? Random right? But like the census and American Eagle, I feel everyone should have a job in certain sectors... it teaches you interesting things. Quote of the Day: Watching a documentary on the Smithsonian channel on the science of Jurassic Park. Mom mentioned she didn't see the value behind cloning Dinosaurs in real life like Jurassic Park, "I don't think Humans need any competition" , and asked me for my opinion: "Well I don't know if they should do what they did in Jurassic Park, but I think it'd be cool if there was like -- an island museum [zoo] people could go to... oh, well I guess that is the plo...