When she lived on the failed colony Turkana IV, Natasha Yar felt obligated to protect a cat while being chased by a rape gang. By his own account, actor Brent Spiner did not like working with the cat who played Spot, but you can’t tell from Spiner’s performance. Some of the other episodes featured include “The Gamesters of Triskelion” (don’t touch the green section, kitty! His open mouth emits an eerie voice, telling Captain Kirk that Enterprise is cursed and must leave the planet immediately, or death will follow. Not all felinoid races were as peaceful as the Caitians, such as this more warlike race of sentient, bipedal cats.

Social Media: Follow us Facebook and Instagram, where we announce and share information about ongoing discounts and promotions. These coasters are the perfect gift for any fan of Star Trek: Discovery and are sure to have your guests talking! Featuring a cat version of Captain Kirk, this sweatshirt will make you chuckle each time you reach for it.Out of what might be pure insanity, she has found herself in this peculiar niche of drawing pop-culture characters as cats. Other feline characters to grace the celluloid (or tape, as it were) of Trek include Sylvia in cat form and Gary Seven’s cat Isis from The Original Series, Data’s cat Spot (played by several cat actors, both male and female) in The Next Generation, Miles O’Brien’s cat Chester in Deep Space Nine, and Barclay’s cat Neelix in Voyager, to name a few (the complete list is at, where do you think, Memory Alpha).

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The first song I consciously remember recognizing, for example, was Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man. Whether it’s Cordwainer Smith’s spacefaring cats obliterating aliens in “The Game of Rat and Dragon,” Sigourney Weaver’s Jonesy the Nostromo ship cat surviving the eponymous Alien, or Fritz Lieber’s beloved Gummitch the Super Kitten, felines have long played major roles in speculative fiction. It's hard to read because there is no plot or flow, but she loves the graphics so darn much and laughs at the cats in hats. and NBC's early- 1966 publicity booklet, reprinted in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story) described him as having a cat-like curiosity about everything of alien origin, even to his detriment. Both women have long, feline tails, and Abrams would later confirm they’re the alternate universe version of Caitians.