Tholian

• Communicated primarily through a series of clicks & chirps

• Non-humanoid

• Long-lived

• Unknown

• Crystalline lifeform
• Hard carapace that was chiefly mineral
• Two triangular eyes
• Six thin legs
• Biology required high temperatures

• Possesses both male & female sex organs

• Tholia

• Tholian Assembly (22nd century - 24th century)
• Tholian Republic (32nd century)

• The High Magistrates

• Extremely xenophobic civilization
• Tholian silk was highly prized & a difficult commodity to obtain
• Value punctuality

• 2151: First contact with humans
• Had several conflicts with the Federation
• 2371: Sign a non-aggression pact with the Dominion
• By the late 32nd century, they were still adversarial with the Federation