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.