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* (Linked to the above) Ktarian infants have protruding incisors up to three or four weeks after the birth) [Deadlock VOY] | * (Linked to the above) Ktarian infants have protruding incisors up to three or four weeks after the birth) [Deadlock VOY] | ||
* The Antique store on Deep Space 9 was run by a Ktarian. | |||
**Source: Birthright, Part I" TNG | |||
* Ktarians are quite open about their culture, and trust outsiders to carry out expeditions to even their most sacred sites. Starfleet expeditions have been allowed to visit the Ktarian burial grounds. [Emanations VOY] | * Ktarians are quite open about their culture, and trust outsiders to carry out expeditions to even their most sacred sites. Starfleet expeditions have been allowed to visit the Ktarian burial grounds. [Emanations VOY] | ||
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* Like many other cultures, Ktarians ritualise death, burying their dead in tombs filled with thousands of stones. Each stone is sacred, as it symbolizes a prayer for the deceased. It is forbidden to remove these stones from a Ktarian tomb. [Emanations VOY] | * Like many other cultures, Ktarians ritualise death, burying their dead in tombs filled with thousands of stones. Each stone is sacred, as it symbolizes a prayer for the deceased. It is forbidden to remove these stones from a Ktarian tomb. [Emanations VOY] | ||
** Source: On an away mission to the planet a young Chakotay once took one of these stones as a souvenir, and was later horrified to find that he had desecrated the mans resting place by his actions. | ** Source: On an away mission to the planet a young Chakotay once took one of these stones as a souvenir, and was later horrified to find that he had desecrated the mans resting place by his actions. | ||
* There are eight chambers in a Ktarian heart. This means a Ktarian heart beat sounds similar to the sound of a ship’s hull being vibrated by the EM fields of a pulsar cluster. | |||
** Source: [Body and Soul VOY] | |||
* Ktarian starship technology is not as advanced as Starfleet's. When the Enterprise-D was challenged by a small Ktarian ship in the Phoenix cluster the starship was not threatened ad easily secured the smaller vessel (taking it in tow to a starbase.) However they are advanced in other | * Ktarian starship technology is not as advanced as Starfleet's. When the Enterprise-D was challenged by a small Ktarian ship in the Phoenix cluster the starship was not threatened ad easily secured the smaller vessel (taking it in tow to a starbase.) However they are advanced in other technologies [The Game TNG] | ||