HUMANOIDS
Humanoid races include Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Humans) of Earth, Alpha Centurians,
the Yonadans of New Fabrina, and all other races which resemble Terrans to any
great degree. They have no psionic abilities, except in very rare cases. This
uniformity among humanoid races has been assumed to be the work of some progenitor
race. In 2369 this hypothesis was proven through the efforts of paleoarchaeologist
Dr. Richard Galen and the crew of the Enterprise-D. They discovered that this
progenitor race had seeded their DNA into the oceans of proto-Class-M planets
throughout the galaxy some four billion years ago. A recorded message of universal
goodwill and brotherhood was assembled from coding in the DNA sequences of several
humanoid races, and revealed these progenitors to be bald, pale-skinned humanoids
with deep-set eyes and vestigial ears, essentially similar to most of the humanoid
races familiar to the Federation. No other traces of this civilization has been
found.
Numerous humanoid
races of primitive cultures have been found transplanted from their homeworlds
to other planets across the galaxy. In most cases, these were cultures in danger
of extinction. It has been hypothesized that this transplanting was done by
a race called the Preservers (or Wise Ones, as some of the transplanted cultures
refer to them). The Preservers seem to have vanished nearly a millennium ago.
No trace of their civilization has been found either, save the numerous humanoid
races thriving throughout the galaxy. The operations of the mysterious humanoid
known as "Gary Seven", found living on Terra in 1968, are, in theory,
similar to those of the Preservers. What connection Mr. Seven may have had to
the Providers, who apparently vanished centuries before his time, are open to
conjecture.