I absolutely adore trek alien redesigns but Trill redesigns always end up being unintentionally hilarious, because I then have to imagine a Jadzia that looks like a salamander, or has extra arms, or flies through the air just existing in modern day San Francisco hanging out with tech bros.
Some tech guy brings a giant talking salamander to a party and his friends just move past it to talk about Brexit and the protests going on in France.
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More alien aliens headcanon, no. 298:
With their advanced sense of smell Tellarites can identify mycelial toxins, spores and their effects on organic beings with even better accuracy than Human can identify rain.
Since mushrooms are such a staple of Tellarite cuisine, the way in which a mushroom meal is metabolised can help to diagnose other diseases. For example, especially sour smelling pheromones are a sign of the early stages of many kidney diseases. For a long time a traditionally trained Tellarite doctor could more reliably diagnose poisons and diseases than medical tricorders.
Once medical technology caught up with Tellarite noses, the art of sniffing out ailments was almost lost because of the long training period - a Tellarite doctor with a tricorder could be fully trained in 8 years as opposed to the traditional 21. The change went hand in hand with a spike of serious or late stage physical ailments on Tellar: This is because you have to aim tricorders with intent, whereas 'sniffer training' will passively identify sick individuals in the same room within half a minute - provided they live mostly on mushrooms.
The art was saved from oblivion by of the Dominion War. Tellarite soldiers quickly learned that Jem'hadar could be detected by their smell even when using personal cloaking devices. This method could not pinpoint the precise location of cloaked enemies, but the alert itself was 100% reliable and prevented many ambushes from turning into all-out massacres. After the war, veterans took a renewed interest in traditional medicine and started nothing less than a planet-wide hype, comparable to the post-WWII success of t-shirts on Earth.
Since then, researchers on Tellar have begun exploring other applications for this technique. From cooking to archiving to meteorology and terraforming, the fusion of this Tellarite art form with newer, off-world fields of study has been a great boon to intergalactic society.
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Scylla - they/them
Mysterious at this stage, but I think I'll keep them that way. An unfamiliar being from some far off part of the universe - with a few twists to their character. Ferocious and cunning.
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no one knows how obsessed i am w her and her and ben's relationship. one day ill make a post
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started thinking about what i would do with a galaxy high reboot and things are spiraling out of control
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More alien aliens headcanon, no. 549:
Gorn are taste telepaths. Similarly to the elves from the Divinity series or space marines from 40k, they can get psychic impressions of thoughts, memories or skills by consuming the DNA of animals or humanoids. This is why they prefer meat from animals that lived well and died quickly. Ritual cannibalism is the standard way of showing respect to a deceased loved one, a fallen enemy or an executed convict (if considered rehabilitated). A part of the person will live on in society, their contributions are acknowledged and honoured. A person who does not get eaten is denied an afterlife, doomed to be forgotten, and forever separated from society. This is reserved as the highest form of punishment or a last resort.
When first fighting Humans, prejudices about the Gorn - cold-blooded killers, cruel savages, worse than animals - psychically affected the soldiers eating fallen enemies as a post-battle ritual. Even worse, Humans are one of the only species that cause neurodegenerative disorders in Gorn when consumed. This means that Gorn units that fight Humans will eventually turn into the bloodthirsty, sadistic killers and cannibals their enemies saw them as. When infected Gorn are given standard funeral rites they pass the double threat of psychic insanity and prion disease on to their mourners.
Once the effects of exposure to Humans became clear and study of the causes became impossible, the Gorn drew their conclusions: Humans cannot contribute to society, cannot enter the afterlife, have no souls. They are to be killed on sight, communication with them is forbidden. Any Gorn that has been near a Human needs to be executed and the body burned - a great yet necessary evil.
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Currently rewatching Ben 10, first time ever watching Omniverse, ngl I miss Gwen and Kevin
I like it when a team has an element that binds then together visually, so I decided to add green and black
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