Hey, Star Trek fans, do you recall any episodes of either TOS or TNG where the Enterprise crew interacted with more than one intelligent species (could communicate with humans/Vulcans) from a given planet? Or did they only ever deal with a planet's one dominant intelligent species?
Sounds like loaded question... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield
ReplyDeleteEdit - same species, different race.
Interesting question. At the mining colony they resolved a conflict between the miners and the Horta. I doubt that the miners were all terrans. Then there's Gamesters with multiple species in conflict.
ReplyDeletePhillip Landmeier Well, Spock also communicated with the Horta, which were the native species as opposed to invading one.
ReplyDeleteSteve S Exactly. The Horta was sentient. Another that comes to mind -- I think the title was Errand of Mercy, where two species were dealt with, Klingons and Organians.
ReplyDeleteEdit: just realized I misunderstood the question.
ReplyDeleteI know there was an episode from voyager were they broke through a force field that had been put up from aliens. They were tribe like and the other species (same planet) wanted resources so the voyager crew put the force field back in place before leaving so the couldn't.
ReplyDeleteTNG had the episode "home soil" with the sentient crystal species.
ReplyDeleteI have vague recollections of episodes featuring more than one species, typically, one exploiting another. But often, visual memory is flawed because so many alien species were only defined by a little grease paint or hair-gel.
ReplyDeleteTo be clear, I'm wondering if stories contained multiple (>1) intelligent species from the same home planet.
ReplyDeleteTo explain, I was curious as to whether or not Bradbury believed it likely that a planet could sustain multiple native intelligent species existing in harmony or whether one would eventually "win" by either suppressing or driving to extinction the other(s).
The best Trek example I can think of would probably be the Trill.
ReplyDeleteThere is an episode in TNG where there are two different species working together from the same planet. One species is new, the other is ancient, and has been in the Star Trek mythos before. The ancient species is starting to come down with very odd incurable illnesses. Eventually Picard and Riker with input from Troi left the planet to allow whatever happens happen. The outcome was unknown as they never revisited. Wil Wheaton might know, but he wasn't in that episode, I'll give him a call.
ReplyDeleteThere were distinctions of class in both Spock's Brain and The Cloud Minders that were also built around education level/intellect.
ReplyDeletePatterns of Force also had two warring planets (along with the Nazi Germany parallel).
Arena, while featuring Human vs. Gorn, also had the Metrons as the mediating force. Similarly, Errand of Mercy had Human vs. Klingon with the Organians mediating.
Bob Lai All those in your last paragraph were species from different planets, though, yes?
ReplyDeleteYou know what? Even including Voyager and DS9, I can't recall an instance. Closest was an invading dominant species over another, or a few times with factions, but I don't remember one with two separate, independent species outside the Trill that Robert Partridge mentioned.
ReplyDeleteOh wait, there was a Voyager episode where the species was advanced dinosaurs, so from Earth, but a vastly different Era.
ReplyDeleteWell, technically, I think the Vulcans and Romulans were originally the same species, but evolved on different planets.
The Sauropods never co-habitated with humanity though.
ReplyDeleteENT had the 5 independent Xindi species the same planet.
ReplyDeleteStar Trek TNG. Symbiosis, Season 1 Episode 22. Thanks Wil.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle Yes.
ReplyDeleteKent Seaton those were two different planets - same species
ReplyDeleteThis continues to be an interesting question. While I cited some examples, none of them precisely address the question.
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't directly address this question - but I'm also reminded of the Progenitors.
ReplyDeletehttp://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Progenitors
Except the species on risa weren't all from risa
ReplyDeleteDamn. I guess it's a question for Q.
ReplyDeleteFarpoint station - the alien that was the station wasn't from the planet but was trapped there.
ReplyDeleteI think it's fairly clear that we're talking about having two intelligent species develop from the same planet. There's too many examples all through Trek where you have multiple species interacting that aren't from the same planet.
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