#kzinti

The Kzinti, longtime opponents of humanity in numerous stories by Larry Niven, made their onscreen debut in The Slaver Weapon, episode 14 of the first season of Star Trek: The Animated Series.

The science fiction grandmaster himself adapted one of his short stories as the basis for the episode.

For those unfamiliar with the Kzinti, they have warred for a long time in Niven's Known Universe stories. The Known Universe is the setting for many of Niven's stories, including the Hugo Award winner Ringworld.

Niven has made the Known Universe a shared universe, and many other authors have contributed their own stories about the conflict between humanity and the Kzinti. Most, if not all, of the Kzinti stories have been collected in the paperback series The Man-Kzin Wars. To date there have been fifteen volumes in the series, as well as several novels.

As evidenced in these screenshots, this episode gave Filmation plenty of opportunity to use the pink paint it seemed to love so much when making Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Also noteworthy about this episode is that only three Enterprise crew members are featured: Spock, Sulu and Uhura. Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Chapel are not seen. However, James ("Scotty") Doohan provides the voices for the Kzinti, and Majel ("Chapel") Barrett-Roddenberry voices the computer.

"Welcome to the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE, where thousands of people boldly explore new worlds and new situations every day.

As is readily apparent, the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE is based on The Original Series of Star Trek, and is produced under contracts with Paramount and with Franz Joseph Designs. While not necessarily "canon trek", the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE is a rich and vast playground, and is more consistent than the literary equivalents. It has to be, since the STAR FLEET UNIVERSE is home to a number of game systems, and gamers tend to get upset if we change the rules, history, background, and technology every time a fiction writer needs a new plot device. We do, by the way, publish a lot of fiction in our CAPTAIN'S LOG series, some of which is regarded as among the best published for this genre."

It is something of a forgotten part of the lore that the Kzin are quote unquote "canon" to the Star Trek universe. As well as the Lyrans which body fucking talks about these days.

guys... GUYSSSS... i finally finished all the ref sheets for my star trek ocs!!!!! i literally finished all the fullbodies at the end of LAST JUNE and it took me UNTIL NOW to finish all the fucking REF SHEETS they pretty much all already need redesigns and i hate them (i probably would have finished them in like. a week. if i hadnt been in the middle of moving)

THEY PRETTY MIUCH ALL HAVE A GLARING DESIGN FLAW OR TWO AUGHHHHH DOTN EAT ME.. anyways they all live on a starbase bordering Klingon territory which is both an important strategic point and unimportant enough that people who are not as well suited to starfleet are sent there...

Look at the face of this creature and tell me they’re not absolutely craving to be a “dumb animal” catgirl