Phylosian
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The Phylosians are intelligent plant beings, roughly humanoid in shape, with heads, eye stalks, bipedal leg projections, and a central body with many vinelike appendages. The are native to Phylos II and are passive with an intense desire for galactic peace. They share a planetwide dream of moving out into space to serve as peace enforcers.
The race is, sadly, a dying one. Dr. Stavos Keniclius, an Earth scientist during the Eugenics Wars, migrated to Phylos after a bitter disagreement with human authorities over the need for a genetically superior human master race. The Phylosians greeted him with open arms and aided him in his quest to perfect the science of genetic cloning. Unknown to them, he had inadvertently brought with him a staphylococcus bacterial strain against which the Phylosians had no resistance. Many of the natives died in the worldwide plague, and the spore cells of the survivors were rendered sterile. Much later, Keniclius and a specially assigned Federation scientific team set out to artificially produce a healthy group of seed individuals using genetic information taken from the surviving Phylosians. While progress has been made, it is unknown whether the race will survive.
Reference(s)
- Johnson, Shane. Star Trek: The Worlds of the Federation, New York: Pocket Books, 1989. ISBN: 0-671-66989-3.