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The '''Sheliac''' are an "alien of the week" from the [[TNG]] episode, "Ensigns of Command". Outside of this one incident, they make no appearance in [[Star Trek]]. | The '''Sheliac''' are an "[[alien of the week]]" from the [[TNG]] episode, "Ensigns of Command". Outside of this one incident, they make no appearance in [[Star Trek]]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:25, 15 January 2008
The Sheliac are an "alien of the week" from the TNG episode, "Ensigns of Command". Outside of this one incident, they make no appearance in Star Trek.
Nature
The Sheliac government -- if not the species in general -- has little sympathy for other species. They appear to respect the Federation as a coalition with sufficient resources to resist them, so they signed an extremely detailed peace agreement. Nonetheless, when they detected human colonists on a planet granted to them under the terms of the treaty, they insisted that the colonists be removed before they arrived, otherwise they would exterminate the colonists themselves.
The planet in question was in a region of space saturated with "hyperonic radiation", which was harmful to humans and prevented the normal operation of some Federation technology, especially transporters and phasers. Since the Sheliac were planning to establish a colony there, it is reasonable to conclude that their own physiology and technology would not have been affected.