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Snakes in a torpedo case
The hallucinated snakes of Cmdr. Riker in 2367
An illusion of a snake that was assimilated by the Borg
Snakes were a group of reptiles which lacked limbs. Snakes were sometimes referred to informally as serpents. Some snakes were venomous.
On Earth, there was an ancient African myth about a giant serpent called the night beast. (ST: "The Girl Who Made the Stars")
The 22nd century Earth Starfleet survival training course involved living on recycled sweat and snake meat. (ENT: "Desert Crossing")
In the mid-22nd century, Hoshi Sato and two other teachers from Amazon University took a hydro-skimmer to visit a tributary of the Amazon River. Sato saw sloths, pink dolphins, and many kinds of snakes there, which frightened her a lot. (ENT: "Fight or Flight")
While being interrogated by Dolim, a Xindi-Reptilian who proclaimed his cold-blooded superiority, Jonathan Archer attempted to provoke him by recalling the downfall of reptilian rule on Earth, and the rise of the mammals. Archer further explained that not all reptiles died out, and that some evolved into snakes, alligators and turtles. (ENT: "Azati Prime")
While discussing a plan to deceive a Gorn destroyer in 2259, Captain Christopher Pike mentioned the snake as an animal that plays dead in response to being hunted. (SNW: "Memento Mori")
A snake that would fall down on a hapless victim when a doorbell was pulled was part of the Sherlock Holmes holographic story that Data and Geordi La Forge ran in 2365. (TNG: "Elementary, Dear Data")
When Commander Riker was suffering from acute lack of REM sleep in 2367, he hallucinated that there were snakes underneath his blanket. (TNG: "Night Terrors")
In 2370, the D'Arsay archive turned parts of a photon torpedo on USS Enterprise-D into living snakes. (TNG: "Masks")
The group of snakes included garter snakes, rat snakes, and milk snakes, all common and harmless.
A Bajoran snake
A green and white striped snake was native to the planet Bajor. Vedek Bareil saw one of these snakes during an Orb experience in 2370. (DS9: "The Collaborator")
The snake in Bareil's vision was an emerald tree boa (Corallus caninus).
A snake from planet Soukara
A yellow snake species was also native to the planet Soukara. Jadzia Dax and Worf encountered one of them during their mission on Soukara. (DS9: "Change of Heart")
The snake on Soukara was an albino Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus), a color variant popular in the pet trade.
Trakor's Third Prophecy made reference to vipers, indicating the existence of snakes on Bajor. (DS9: "Destiny")
The Greek mythological figure Medusa had snakes in place of her hair. In 2382, Beckett Mariner asked Olly, granddaughter of Zeus, if the snakes had names and if they were one big snake rather than many small ones. (LD: "Of Gods and Angles")
Types[]
An ophidian camouflaged
- Aldebaran serpent
- Anaconda
- Arboreal needle snake
- Draxxan cloud viper
- Filian python
- Fire snake
- Ophidian
- Serpent of Xol
- Serpent worm
- Sky snake
- Rattlesnake
- Spitting cobra
- Sun viper
- Sur-snake
- Wentlian condor snake
A creature that appears on Dakala in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Rogue Planet" was referred to, in that episode's final draft script, as a snake, but is referred to as a "bug" on screen.
The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series bible described the Trill symbiont Dax as resembling "a short, fat snake".