- Varied skin, hair and eye coloration
- Remarkably pleasure-oriented people
- Mostly interested in things that were new and different to them
- Quickly grew bored with people or activities that they had already experienced
- Known for their hospitality to visitors
- Their canon of law prohibited the sharing of their tech
- Stories were an important part of their culture
- Wore a series of thin, wire-like loops or rings encircling their head
- Produced unusual technologies like their atmospheric sensor, and the spatial trajector
- 2371: Made first contact with the Federation via the USS Voyager
- 2360s-2380s: Some had been assimilated by the Borg
