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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never seen TAS but is that an anime catgirl?

[–] StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That is M’Ress, a Catian, and the back up Comms officer among other roles.

Animation allows for aliens that aren’t just bumpy forehead humanoids.

T’Ana, the Chief Medical Officer in Lower Decks and, a minor recurring character in the first season of Prodigy (shown in my avatar) are also Caitian.

Strongly recommend seeing TAS at least once. There’s a lot of great stuff in there from the original TOS writers and cast.

A shout out to Trek Core’s great database of screencaps. This one is from their TAS BlueRay screencap library.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So the answer to my question is technically "yes"

Caitians are feliniods, yes.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Technically not, because this is Western animation, not anime.

[–] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Found the vulcan

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read this in Data's voice.

"It appears that they are some sort of feline-humanoid hybrid creature, reminiscent of early 21st century Japanese animation."

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Except not FFS. What did my Vulcan-Android ass just get done telling you?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Lower decks mines so much material from TAS.

[–] delawen@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

They were also able to have that episode in which gravity was broken. No CGI, jut draw.

[–] artair@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

There's a feline race in the Star Trek universe called the Caitians. Their appearance varies WIDELY depending on whether they're live-action or animated.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Caitian