Cattle were a domesticated grazing herding mammals from Earth, used in agriculture primarily for its milk and meat. A male was known as a bull and a female was known as a cow. Cows were used to make hamburger meat and other types of beef. (ENT: "Carpenter Street"; VOY: "Fury")
Lokai described the treatment of the natives of his race on the planet Cheron at the hands of Bele, approximately 50,000 years before 2268, by describing how "He raided our homes, tore us from our families, herded us together like cattle and then sold us as slaves!" (TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
In ancient mythology, the story of Gilgamesh and Enkidu told of how the two traveled into the desert near Uruk to confront the great bull of heaven, which had been killing men by the hundreds. Enkidu caught the bull by the tail, and Gilgamesh struck it with his sword, and together defeated the beast. (TNG: "Darmok")
During the late 19th century, Ancient West outlaw William Claiborne was known as a cattle rustler and a horse thief. (TOS: "Spectre of the Gun")
In an alternate reality version of 2255, a figurine of a cow could be seen in the Shipyard Bar. (Star Trek)
In describing the individual that he knew as Lazarus, Captain James T. Kirk stated that "one minute he's at the point of death, the next, he's alive, well, strong as a bull," unaware that this difference was attributed to Lazarus trading places with anti-Lazarus. (TOS: "The Alternative Factor")
The bull was also commonplace on the planet 892-IV, where former-gladiator-turned-peace-fanatic Flavius Maximus was referred to as being "as peaceful as a bull." (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
A cosmic cloud entity that consumed the planet Alondra was referred to as being "like a huge bull grazing here and there in the pasture of the universe." (TAS: "One of Our Planets Is Missing")
The term "bullshit" was a colorful metaphor that referred to the manure produced by a bull. (Star Trek: First Contact; Star Trek) The term could also be abbreviated (or censored) to the similarly meaning "bull". (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
In 2022 Khan Noonien Singh had a drawing depicting a cow near a house, (SNW: "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow")
Twenty cows were included on the SS Mariposa colonization expedition during the 22nd century. Centuries later, the colony still had cows, the Bringloidi colonists even bringing a cow aboard the USS Enterprise-D during the evacuation of the colony in 2365. (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder")
When Spock tried to match the sound of the Whale Probe to the sound of various Earth animals while using the phylum search mode aboard the Klingon Bird-of-Prey HMS Bounty in 2286. Among the search results was the image of a cow. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
In 2376, Tom Paris turned Harry Kim's holodeck date, Maggie O'Halloran, into a cow as a prank, unknowingly causing the people of the Fair Haven holoprogram to believe that Paris and Kim were evil spirits. (VOY: "Spirit Folk")
Morn once owned a painting of a matador that depicted the outcome of a bullfight. (DS9: "In the Cards", "Who Mourns for Morn?")
A bull was mentioned in the final draft script of ENT: "The Council", which likened a group of Xindi-Insectoid starships swarming around the Xindi primary weapon to "gnats around a bull."
Another scripted reference to a bull was in the revised final draft script of TOS: "Balance of Terror", which at one point called for Lieutenant Stiles to glower "with bull-like defiance," in response to the USS Enterprise facing seemingly imminent destruction by an oncoming Romulan plasma torpedo.
See also[]
- Andorian bull
- Buffalo
- Bull's-eye
- Milking
- Ox
- Yridian yak