Organian

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Organian
Four Letter Code	ORGA
Federation Status	Allied
Planet of Origin	Organia
Encountered	TOS:Errand of Mercy, Stardate 3198.4, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701,
T/E Rating	T0/E0
Current Tech Level	X
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"You are inferior, insignificant, unevolved, violent. Do not seek to pollute our world with your insanity."

an Organian statement.

The Organians are a species that long ago evolved past the need for a physical body and now exist simply as pure energy and thought. They abhor violence but also dislike becoming involved in the affairs of lesser evolved species.

Home System

• Quadrant: Beta
• Location: Vrede Sector (coordinates B34-0001-1303)
• Proper Name: Prinos Omegas system
• Star: It orbits a class B (Blue-White) star
• Distance from Star: its orbit is approximately 64 million km
• Companions: It is the only planet in the system.
• Moons: it has 8 moons.

Home World

• Proper Name: Organia
• Diameter: 23,614 km (14,673 miles)
• Gravity: 1.04 standard gravity with a density of 3.1
• Axial Tilt: 13.1%, with normal seasonal changes
• Orbital Period: 452 days
• Rotational Period: 26.3 hours
• Classification: M
• Surface Water: 41%
• Atmosphere: 1.12% is a standard pressure with 68% nitrogen, 31% oxygen, 1% trace chemicals
• Climate: Mainly a temperate planet with a large arctic poles region.
• Terrain: Most of the planet is rolling hills and grasslands covered with vast forests.
• Population: Unknown

History

The Organians were at one time corporeal life-forms, but transcended, evolved past the need for their material bodies. They have implied that their desire to avoid physical pain was one of the reasons for that.

The study of archaeological structures on their world would at first seem to suggest that the Organian civilization is 5 to 10 million years old. However some experts believe that this is incorrect and that, based on the data and other information gathered, that the Organians may actually have evolved past the need for physical bodies as much as 22 million years ago.

The Organians are considered to be "upstart, idealistic kids" by the Q continuum and refused to participate in the war between the Q and O’s group. They merely stood on the perimeter of the war zone and watched.

At some unknown point, they were known to have warred against the Metrons before both civilizations adopted a peaceful outlook.

The Organians also turned back the envoys of the Tkon Empress Glevi Ut some 600,000 years ago.

At some point in their history, the Organians taught a teleportation technique to the Traveler.

The Organians were privy to the legacy of the Preservers and one of their missions was to ensure that the younger species were allowed to grow without being influenced. As such, they made it their objective to ensure that any Preservers outpost remained unspoiled by any of the younger species in order to prevent the advanced technology from falling into hostile hands.

For ten thousand years, they observed a planet that contained a silicon-based virus, and the reactions of species that encountered it, in an attempt to find a species with a higher level of intelligence. Among the species which the Organians observed as they attempted to deal with this deadly virus were the Klingons, the Cardassians, and Humans.

In 2154, one group of Organians made first contact with Humans via the crew of the Enterprise NX-01. The Organians erased all memory of their existence from the crew's minds, but began preparations for an official first contact.

In addition, they intervened in an attempt at combating the Iruhe threat but by later years it was unsure what they had done to accomplish this effect.

The Organians later took the appearance of a simple pre-industrial humanoid society for the purpose of interaction with other lifeforms. Based on the preliminary Federation surveys, the Organian society rated a class D-minus on the Richter scale of culture.

When Organia was invaded by the Klingons at the start of the Federation-Klingon War in 2267, Captain James T Kirk and his first officer, Spock, attempted to convince the apparently-primitive Organians to accept Federation protection.

The Organians seemed completely unconcerned with external affairs, almost to the point of apathy. It was only when Kirk and Spock began conducting a guerrilla war against the Klingon occupation that the Organians abandoned their false humanoid forms and intervened, forcing an end to the interstellar war.

They imposed the Treaty of Organia, between the Federation and the Klingon Empire because they detested violence and their world is along the border and along a strategic corridor. The treaty they imposed established the neutral zone. It also established a framework for interaction between the two enemies, accurately predicting that, in time, they would eventually become friends. This event placed official first contact between the Organians and the Federation much sooner than the Organians had first anticipated.

Since then both the Klingons and the Federation have avoided the Prinos Omegas system as much as possible. However the Organians have allowed Federation scientists and archeological teams to visit their world and attempt to learn and understand more about their ancient history.

Government

Nothing is known about the exact type or form of government they have. However based on the data available and certain observations some experts believe that because the Organians are pure thought and energy they may be able to communicate when needed with their entire population. In effect joining their minds together into a kind of hive mind to debate and consider options and possible actions for them to take as a group.

Description

It is unclear exactly what the Organians really looked like but they stated they had once been humanoid. They had developed beyond the need for physical bodies millions of years earlier and "that of us which you see ... is mere appearance ... for your sake". Two of them then disappeared, first passing through a state in which they radiated intensely bright light.

Physiology

They are either impervious or highly resistant to directed energy weapons at settings powerful enough to kill humanoid life. They are also more evolved than Sargon and his people, who could move from body to body, but could not survive without a body or other physical container.

As beings of pure thought, they are either immortal or extremely long-lived; Claymare commented that no one had died on Organia in "uncounted thousands of years".

The species had long ago gone past their corporeal forms and had become beings of energy giving them a number of abilities beyond that of simple organic beings. Through their combined ability they were able to stop a war between the Federation Starfleet and the Klingons by making their controls hot to the touch.

Little was known about the Organians motives though it was believed by some that the only reason they intervened in the war between the Klingon Empire and the Federation was because it was around their territory. It was also believed that the race were isolationists who preferred to remain content on their homeworld. With that being the case, there was a faction of Organians that journeyed through the stars and observed other races though they were considered a minority and were not discussed of by the majority of the race.

This group made extensive studies of various species by "possessing" the bodies of members of that species during stressful scenarios.

Psychology

Organians consider intervention in the affairs of others to be most disgusting, but felt they had no choice when they imposed the peace treaty in 2267 – they simply could not watch idly as the Federation and the Klingons slaughtered each other and perhaps others. They find the discordant emotions of less evolved beings highly painful. As a gesture of hospitality to visitors, they create conventional points of reference – physical bodies for themselves, buildings, and other objects. In 2267, the setting they created was reminiscent of a primitive agrarian community.

Q considered them to be relative youngsters compared to the Continuum but reasonably evolved. He also referred to them as "a bunch of upstart, idealistic kids, slackers and layabouts".

ESP

The Organians demonstrated a number of abilities. At least one of them, Trefayne, was aware of events at great distances, reporting that space vehicles had assumed orbit about his world and that men had beamed down. Another was able to tell where the helmsman and armory officer were on the ship, while in sickbay.

The Organian observers in the mid-22nd century were able to resurrect the dead; such as the recently deceased Trip Tucker and Hoshi Sato.

The Organians also had the ability to occupy the bodies of humanoid hosts including the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 consisting of Humans, Vulcans and Denobulans as well as alter their memories of their activities.

Ayelborne was able to move through a crowded citadel without attracting the attention of anyone there. He was able to prevent the Klingons from returning to the Council chamber to search for Kirk and Spock, whom he had rescued from the citadel. He was able to appear in at least three places light years apart at the same time, these being his own world, Earth, and Qo'noS.

Kirk believed that the Organians made it possible for Spock and himself to enter the Klingon citadel in defiance of long odds against them. Collectively, the Organians were able to neutralize Starfleet and the Klingon fleet, wherever they were. To prevent the conflict between Humans and Klingons, they managed to make emanate extreme heat from every harmful object available, including phasers controls in both fleets.

The Organians stood on the perimeter of the war zone between the Q Continuum and 0 with their hands clasped together before their chests in a meditative pose projecting an aura of peace and dignity.

Religion

At this time Federation experts do not have any data regarding this topic. However based on what little data is available, it is believed that they do not have any religious beliefs.

Mythology

There has been no data or indication of any kind that would support the existence of ancient tales that predate their evolution past the need for physical bodies. Most experts believe that since most intelligent life forms do develop them early on in their history the Organians most likely have long since forgotten them.

Society

As beings of pure energy and thought they long ago evolved past the need for conventional concepts like society. As a result it is almost impossible for us to understand how their current society functions or how it is structured.

Culture

They do not seem to have any. Most experts agree that since they are incredibly ancient they have long since abandoned any need or interest in any form of artistic expression, probably around the same time as they evolved past the need for physical bodies.

Customs

They do not seem to have any. Most experts agree that since they are incredibly ancient they have long since abandoned any customs they had, probably around the same time as they evolved past the need for physical bodies.

Technology

They do not require or need any form of technology for two reasons. First because they have evolved into beings of pure energy and thought and second because their abilities allow them to do almost anything they want to.

Economy

Since they are beings of pure thought and energy they do not require anything. As a result they have no interest in any trade, objects or other forms of physical wealth, luxury or convenience.

Military

They have none and with their abilities they do not need one, especially as they abhor violence and the needless loss of life. Also their ability to withstand direct energy blasts from any kind of energy weapon allows them to enforce their views on others when they need to with no need to resort to violence on their part.

Federation Intelligence Files

In 2154, the Enterprise NX-01 investigated a Klingon waste site on the planet, and a landing party consisting of Commander Charles Tucker III and Ensign Hoshi Sato contracted the virus. Following their protocol of non-interference, two Organian observers watched the crew's reaction to the situation by inhabiting the bodies of crew members, and subsequently altering their memories so that they had no recollection of the Organians' actions.

One of the two observers (apparently the more senior of the two) felt that the Organians' protocols should be followed strictly; the other, who was impressed by the Humans' compassion, felt that the time had come for the protocols to be altered. The less senior being argued that intelligence alone was not a sufficient measure of a species' worthiness to be contacted.

The senior observer initially occupied the body of Lt. Malcom Reedwhile his associate occupied the body of Ensign Travis Mayweather. They played a game of chess while under Organian control. All of the senior staff of Enterprise were possessed by the observers at one point or another.

After a period of rapid deterioration, both Tucker and Sato died from the virus. However, at the moment of Tucker's death, the junior Organian inhabited his body and communicated his admiration to Captain Jonathan Archer, who had become infected himself in an effort to save his crewmen. He explained his mission to Archer, who pleaded for the Organians to save his crew members – to experience compassion, not merely observe it.

Although it was a violation of their protocols, the Organians complied and revived Tucker and Sato, as well as eliminating the virus from their systems and Archer's. The crew of the Enterprise NX-01 retained no memory of their interactions with the Organian observers. Before they left, the junior Organian told his superior that they should begin preparations for an official First Contact mission, which they felt gave them only about five thousand years.

In 2267, when war broke out between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, the USS Enterprise attempted to secure Organia, but the planet was invaded by a Klingon task force led by Commander Kor. The war was ended when the Organians forced both sides to sign the Organian Peace Treaty.

The furred Rigellians engaged in a heated but pointless debate with the Organians over the treaty, concerning some matter in their ancient records.

In 2269, the Klingons confined the Organians to their planet with a "thought-barrier", thus allowing war to break out between the Federation and Klingons once again. After the Enterprise reached Organia and freed it, the Organians confined the Klingons to their homeworld for 1000 years.

The mad Organian Enowil was also involved in capturing a single ship from the Federation, Klingon and Romulan governments as part of his games. After his tasks were completed, he released the USS Enterprise and created the world of Spyroukis for the colonists the Starfleet starship was attempting to rescue.

At some point during this period, the Organians believed that a physical force was needed to ensure peace within the Alpha Quadrant and Beta Quadrant. To do this, they appeared before the leadership of the Interstellar Concordium and tasked that peaceful empire into enforcing the peace on others. This eventually failed as the many galactic powers rebelled against the attempt at controlling them and fought for freedom.

The Organians temporarily left the material plane (perhaps by choice) in the year 2285, after apparently being manipulated by the Excalbians. This resulted in the dissolution of The Organian Peace Treaty and allowed the Federation and Klingon powers to forge a peace on their own terms.

Later in 2360, Captain Jean-Luc Picard took the amnesiac Manraloth Ariel to the Organian homeworld in order for her to learn from the species about her people, who had disappeared from the galaxy.

In 2371, as James T. Kirk lay near death on Veridian III, he was revisited by the leaders of Organia, who showed him the difference his decisions made in history.

In the same year, it was believed that the species had expended their energies in order to enforce peace and that Ayelborne was the last of their kind. His last act before departing this plane of existence was to bring about a peace between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire similar to the act his people had accomplished with the Klingons. In order to achieve this, he masqueraded as an unusual artifact that was discovered in an expedition to the Gamma Quadrant. After being discovered by the crew of Deep Space 9, Ayelborne used his presence to bring together Starfleet ensign Jamie Samantha Kirk and Romulan Ambassador Jannek.

The Organians were also known to some species of the Gamma Quadrant. In 2376, one of the Even Odds crewmembers cited them as a powerful species that could be behind the Gateways Crisis.

At the time, Starfleet did not approach the Organians for an intervention during the crisis as it was their opinion that as they had not appeared for so long that the forced peace was designed to steer the Klingons and the Federation to their current situation. As such, it was believed they showed little interest in the affairs of other civilizations.

Mirror Universe

In the mirror universe, the world of Organia IV was part of a buffer zone between the Terran Empire and the Klingon Confederacy. When the Klingons moved to take the planet as part of an invasion of the Terran Empire, Captain James T. Kirk led a task force of Imperial Starfleet vessels which induced the planet's sun into a nova which destroyed the Organians and the Klingons. It was only then they realized that the seemingly primitive Organians were powerful incorporeal beings but their deaths along with the Klingon invasion force served as a deterrent to the Klingon Confederacy.

Alternate Reality

In an alternate reality, the Organians were prevented from interfering with humanoids by the Controllers, a civilization of powerful beings descended from Oans. In this reality, the tedious negotiations between the two powerful races effectively prevented them from taking any action to halt the expansion of the malignant Imperial Planets of Terra. The emperor of the Imperial Planets insinuated that the ongoing disagreement was engineered as part of his empire's overall plan of conquest.

Sources

Both Memory Alpha and Memory Beta were used as references as well as the TV episodes, ENT: Observer Effect, TOS: Errand of Mercy and the movies StarTrek IV: The Voyage home and StarTrek VI: The undiscovered Country.

The following written sources were also used TOS novel: Spock Must Die!, TOS novel: Trek to Madworld, TOS novel: Preserver, TOS Rihannsu novel: The Romulan Way, TOS short story: Reflections, TNG novel: Q-Zone, TNG novel: Q-Strike, TNG novel: Doors Into Chaos, TLE novel: The Buried Age, DS9 novel: Rising Son, TOS comic: Against Their Nature, TOS comic: Dark Traveler, TOS comic: Errands of War, TOS comic: Deadly Allies, TOS comic: The Enterprise Experiment, part 5 and DS9 comic: Blood and Honor.

The only other sources used were the FASA RPG module: The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge, the Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Source Book and the TOS video game: Starfleet Command Volume II: Empires at War.

Clarification of Data

The information listed under History at the top of the page is the accepted history as we know it within the Starbase 118 universe.

The data compiled under the heading of the Federation Intelligence Files is a complete listing of all written data which includes alternate timelines, the mirror universe and other confusing events that while they may have happened have been erased from our time line.

The SDC has included all of this data for two reasons. First to provide a complete listing of all of the data available regarding the Organians and second to hopefully reduce any confusion that might result from someone having done an internet search, picked up one of the books and read it or otherwise encountered data that does not match the official history.

SDC

This file was updated and approved by the SDC on 2 December 2014.

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