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Vissian appreciation of food is based on aroma rather than taste. Of [[Human]] foods tried, they tend to like varieties of [[cheese]]. |
Vissian appreciation of food is based on aroma rather than taste. Of [[Human]] foods tried, they tend to like varieties of [[cheese]]. |
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Vissians tended not to travel far, believing that there was sufficient exploration close to their homeworld: their primary goal was to meet new species. They were willing to share their technology with the Enterprise. ({{ENT|Cogenitor}}) |
Vissians tended not to travel far, believing that there was sufficient exploration close to their homeworld: their primary goal was to meet new species. They were willing to share their technology with the Enterprise. ({{ENT|Cogenitor}}) |
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Revision as of 03:02, 2 August 2008
Drennik, a Vissian male
The Vissians are a highly advanced (by human standards in the 2150s) humanoid species native to the planet Vissia in the Vissia system.
Physiology
Vissian script
Vissians are distinguishable by crescent-shaped, segmented ridges circling the eye at the temple. Unusually the Vissians had three genders: the third gender, the cogenitors, made up only 3% of the population and were treated as inferior, existing only for facilitating reproduction between males and females.
Vissians are able to read, learn, and retain large amounts of new information much more quickly and easily than Humans.
History and Technology
A nameless Vissian cogenitor
The Vissians claimed to have developed warp drive more than a millennium before Earth. In the 2150s, vissian spacetravel utilized superior warpcore and sensory technology compared with humans along with photonic weapons, rechargeable with sarium microcells. The Vissians also claimed to have developed a polymer composed of over 200 natural elements. At that time Humans were only aware of 92. At least one ship type was capable of withstanding temperatures higher than 1100 degrees to withstand exploration within a stellar corona. Their stratopods were able to pass through the hydrogen layer of a hypergiant. The Vissians offered to modify NX-01 Enterprise's sensors to detect nucleosynthesis.
- The sudden introduction of photonic torpedo technology by starfleet (apparently unknown to (Malcolm Reed in the episode, yet installed on enterprise only four months later as seen in ENT: "The Expanse"), might possibly be attributed to technological exchange between Earth and the Vissia folowing the first contact.
Culture and Philosophy
A standard Vissian meal.
Vissian appreciation of food is based on aroma rather than taste. Of Human foods tried, they tend to like varieties of cheese.
Vissians are more forward and liberal than Humans are with regards to copulating; they'd rather have sexual intecourse first before continuing a relationship. This forwardness probably developed in their society because there no risk to anyone in the relationship becoming pregnant without a Cogenitor present.
Vissians tended not to travel far, believing that there was sufficient exploration close to their homeworld: their primary goal was to meet new species. They were willing to share their technology with the Enterprise. (ENT: "Cogenitor")