Big, blue, beautiful, bald Bolians. Perfection.

Maybe a lot of Bolian females wore wigs so that they would feel more comfortable (or pure vanity) blending in with other Federation cultures.

Video suggestion: How about one on the Augments, the Eugenics War, and the impact on Federation society since that time?

Space smurfs ftw! I've always liked this species.

“I wouldn’t be a good technician if I didn’t know how to open a door.”

You forgot their cartilaginous tongue. I forget the episode but it's where Neelix tries to get Tuvok to try a fruit juice and Neelix says Chell liked it. Tuvok quips that Chell's tongue could survive even the strongest acid. Should I be worried that I can randomly quote a random Voyager episode... Nah :P

Booleans are hard to communicate with, as they only know "True" and "False".

Their poop can't be caustic AND acidic! Different ends of the pH scale. I'll get my coat.

The Bolians always have had a special place in my heart. Thank you for covering such an interesting species. I know the Kamanoans have a unique social structure and would love to hear more about them.

Fun fact 1: bollians are blue That's all I know

Your humor always gets me. "Their poop is acid" popping up on the bottom of the screen, completely blindsided. Thank you for the laugh. 6:56

I don't know why you included a clip of the Ambassador class starship... But I appreciate it.

I think that Bolians and Talaxians would get along well.

I'd like to know more about the androids from the TOS episode I Mudd. It's rather strange how the federation never thought to revisit at that a planet in pursuit of building more androids instead of trying to dismantle Data's brain.

You are great at bringing enlightenment to the fans of Star Trek THANK AGAIN for your passion for knowledge about the things we fans love.

That reminds me of a certain other species from a certain other universe. I had no idea Bolians also like their meat... Aged.

The Obvious Evolution of the primitive SMURF.

I love you, Rick! Your voice makes me quiver!

I have a suggestion on a video, can you go over the hybrid species in sci-fi? Ex.(human-Klingon or human-Vulcan)

Well, actually I would like to see videos on both.

"I've got Boles of steel."

I like the Bolians, rather cool looking since so many Star Trek aliens look human but with ridges on the nose or forehead. That said, the Delvians of Farscape seem to be partly based on Bolians, the skin, social nature, meat reliance, etc. Not a rip-off but more a tribute.

Could you do a Cultural Index on the Caitians and Ferasans?

Now we know what planet Megamind's people originally came from. :)

Fascinating and most logical! 🖖

It would be pretty cool if you would do some Indexes on the various species from Andromeda

They only explicitly said that money doesn't exist on Earth, not in the UFP as a whole

Hey love your Cultural Index series. If your doing more Star Wars, could you please do the Yuuzhan Vong next? Their my all time favorite aliens and I'd be so happy if you gave them a look. Thank you keep up the great work!

How about a video on Deltans?

On behalf of the Romulan Star Empire, no comment.

Thank you, don't get much of the history of Star Trek's universe beings from the television shows and movies.

Many new machines on IX.

Great video! You should do the Hur'q sometime in the future.

The Bolian web, a strategy wherein several Bolians trap you in a web of inane conversation.

Rick, Great job on the Bolians, who are a more interesting species than I suspected. As for the next video, I vote for the Kaminoans

Video suggestion: How about one on the Nautolans? They are one of my favorite Star Wars species

PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON BETAZOIDS!!!

6:37 So that’s why Chell wanted to take over Neelix’s kitchen; rotting food. I’m in no way surprised.

Rick baby, have... have you been at the Romulan ale, with that intro? I know this is a tough time, A) I hope you're not overdoing it, B) please share, C) if you share I'll share some of my Kannabian Pleasure Weed, which can pair _nicely_ with the right exoboozonics.

There are so many species in star trek that I wish they would give just a little more attention. Telarites, Andorians, Orions, Axanar, Deltans, as well as Bolians. Enterprise gave a touch more Andorians, and Telarites, but we got more Xindi than either.

I always liked them... they are the true eccentrics of Trek

Awesome

Sexual Side-effects, damn. There goes my hope of sleeping with every blue alien race.

Good video. Fascinating. Go for Star Wars! 👍😏

For some reason I assumed that Bolians were a sentient humanoid plant-derivative species. I remember hearing Nog once refer to a Bolian 'budding', and he seemed to imply it in a context we would equate with 'pregnancy'.

I searched your channel for Taelons and received this video as a result. However, I can't find the word Taelons in the description. Have you done a video on the Taelons from Earth: Final Conflict? Also, I would suggest that you include references in your videos to the information you give.

A bolian main character would be cool to have. Though I hope the actor doesn't mind the makeup time.

I wonder if u got a video detailing all the Ships and Space Stations in the Star Trek Franchise. And i don't mean just the federation ships but every last type of the other Alien species out there

I'd like to know more on the kaminoans, they are the ones who created the clone army for the clone wars after all?

I was literally thinking the other day about what we knew about the bolians

I only recognized them after I played Elite Force 1. Cell was an interesting but well written character.

How about some cultural indexes on the species of 'The Orville'.

can Dorium link the Doctor Who universe, to Star Trek....please? pretty please?

didn't the only bolian with hair turn out to be an alien imposter and not a bolian at all?

Quarren! Kaminoans have been covered fairly extensively due to their association with the Clones/Cloning Process/Sifo Dias/etc.

every time u do star wars makes me not want to come back lol.

Thry remind me of the Blue Man Group!

Picard sees a bald head and that is a chap we can trust

Caminoans please. Also blue is my favorite

Not really a comment about this particular post, because I like them all. However, I would like to ask you, if you haven't, to do the Metrons from arena, if you have tell me where to find that post.

The Bolian emblem looks (I’m sure very coincidentally) very much like the Defiant.

It's interesting that sexual relations came up in this one. That should be a discussion when doing these as there are many hybrids seen in the show. Also if you want to try 'american pieing' a bolian, just make a blueberry pie with some tobasco sauce tossed in. If you try it, you'll only have yourself to blame.

You for got about the Bolians mortal enemy the Manroepia

I do hope in the near future you'll do a betazoid cultural index on them but I do understand that there's some up & down issues in there canon lore from what I remember renumbering reading and the fact that in main canon there's not to much to work with I believe so I'm not saying there's not nothing to work with I don't know maybe I'm wrong about that I've been studying the betazoids and I don't get a lot of information on them maybe in the future of star trek picard or discovery we'll could get more information on them more likely star trek picard in my opinion for all we know the betazoids will possibly get a big scene in discovery or something we never ever seen coming they do like making a big look at me scene after all alexana tori is normal for betazoids well maybe even more centric for them at all her type of personality may most likely Normal for betazoids but even betazoids have strong personality types like humans when it comes to variety I suppose if anything having a strong personality even telepathic abilities are weak in this culture of there's strong personality is probably very important I mean came on a telepathic society ya need to have a strong backbone for that

do you think you will do any Xcom aliens?

The only Bolian with hair that we saw turned out to be a shape-shifting imposter, so I’d suggest all Bolians are bald and that one just got it wrong.

*perhaps a bit more on Bothan spies and that false rumor of their incredible pain tolerance and the outrageous life insurance premiums they have to pay for even the most basic policies* *and then there's the problematic awkwardness of meeting others socially on first dates in bars and those greedy autograph collectors...and that depressing realization that when anyone says "See you later" they're not being honest with you*

I could be wrong, but the image of the Bolian woman with hair was half human, half Bolian. It's from the TNG episode where Picard was in a prison cell with three others; one was bestial and couldn't eat the food they were given - and was threatening to eat Picard and the others.

I wonder if the fact that they tend to be portly (by human standards) was a deliberate choice on the part of the show runners?

Do Principality of Zeon!

The food thing just makes sense, if your biology lets your eat more rotten meat then your culture is likely to be ok with rotting meat...I imagine it adds huge amounts of flavors if you don't have psychological or physiological reasons to be revolted.

I imagine a Bolian Necromorph where the cranial ridge would split open and act like a mouth.

Quarian

Aren’t our fluids also corrosive?

please do species 8472 next

Since a blue star emits more UV radiation than the Sun, it would make sense for them to have darker pigmentation but no reason for it to be blue (other than green was already taken by Orions ;).

can you do Cultural Index of Avatar's Na'vi please

Heres a tidbit of beta content for you. In the book series "The Genesis Wave" Bolians were shown to be deeply religious and practiced ritualistic suicide if their lives were in imminent peril, preferring death on their own terms preferable to death by the Genesis Wave.

Soundbug on 0:44

How's 'bout one on the Benzites?

I wanted to see more Bolians are trek TV shows. They are also known for their tomato soup.

The cloners please

Why when you said BOLIANS! did I hear "MOLEY, MOLEY, MOLEY!" :)

Quarrens for sure

Kamino for the win and Bolians probably have stockpiles of Romulan Ale.

PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON BETAZOIDS!!!!!

6:00 how would you know that

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but if their planet is the ninth, wouldn't it be more logical if it's Boliaix? if Boliax it's the tenth right? Anyway, good vid! Always wondering about them when watching DS9 and their cannon fodder status.

I'm so mad they called it as "BoliaX" to include the roman "IX" instead of "Bol-IX"

IRL blue blood is copper based. (horse shoe crabs have blue blood) Copper blood is superior to iron blood as it holds more oxygen. It is however, harder to replace if lost, as copper is a much rarer metal on earth than ion. Making access to coper for blood a limiting factor for growth, healing and population size. Hence why the inferor iron blood animals won out over coper based blood.

BLUE

The only thing about these people I knew from before is that you don't want to share a toilet with them

B. Please.

Bolians are what happens when an Andorian has a drunken love trist with a pakled

The Cliffs of Bole

I feel like I've seen more Bolians on screen than Andorians

I imagine the Bolians have excellent relations with the Ferengi Alliance.

Ahh so this is the species the Magnificent Ferengi couldn't ambush if they were blindfolded and tied to a tree.

Know what bolus means? And they live on one.