These Aliens Are the Backbone of Starfleet

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The Tellarites are a porcine alien species in the Star Trek universe. One of the founding members of the United Federation of Planets, they form part of the backbone of Starfleet. But what else do we know about them?
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00:00 Intro
00:51 Sponsored Segment
02:33 Homeworld & Evolution
06:09 Makeup
07:40 Society
08:26 History
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@OrangeRiver 6 ай бұрын

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@aaronstanley6914 6 ай бұрын

@4:35 please stop with the mycelial network joke its getting really old.

@beepboop204 6 ай бұрын

@Watcher1134 6 ай бұрын

@@aaronstanley6914 I think its funy😐

@Watcher1134 6 ай бұрын

Tellarites are Ambidextrous I did not know about the space elevator We saw large lakes on Tellar Prime in enterprise but most of their Water is subterranean found in large underground oceans

@HellOnWheel 6 ай бұрын

10:15 Do one on this Lord Zedd species. They look badass.

@alexanderbusch8014 6 ай бұрын

To me, the Tellarites are like "Space Dwarfs". Argumentative, stubborn, holding grudges, but crafty and the most loyal ally you could have, once you earned their trust.

@jamesabernethy7896 6 ай бұрын

Although it's a very different show with a different audience. I wondered something similar about the Alteans from Voltron. You evoke common characteristics from other franchises in a character, so within a few minutes, the viewer understands 80% of the character. Then you only have to fine-tune the other 20% to your storytelling needs. Relying on, for lack of a better word, stereotypes.

@QuarkGamingLLC 6 ай бұрын

I can see a Tellarite getting pissy with an alien and telling them “That’s going in the book!” And then writing down an angry note in a Padd about the alien forgetting a slip of latinum on a payment

@TheMrPeteChannel 6 ай бұрын

They're space pigs

@ThommyofThenn 6 ай бұрын

You need to run what I call the "hamma test." No not hamma time, no not hammock time (looking at you Jake) No. I'm talkin war hammers. I'm talkin sledge hammers. Do they use comically large hammers in battle? (Use 90s anime comparison model to determine 'comically oversized weapon' value and use that as x in the formula.) Do they use anime to medieval blacksmith size hammers for mining and/or blacksmithing purposes? If yes to any of the above, congratulations ya got a space dwarves

@alexanderbusch8014 6 ай бұрын

So... Salamanders from 40K are and the Leagues of Votann are not... Heresyyyyyyyy? :D

@TheSpeedyTurtle4 6 ай бұрын

Enterprise nailed the Tellerite look. Wish they had more appearances.

@RichieW 6 ай бұрын

Enterprise is criminally underrated. It makes me mad.

@DJSockmonkeyMusic 6 ай бұрын

Enterprise was amazing, I will never understand how a show with that cast and that writing team didn't get 10 seasons.

@keit99 6 ай бұрын

@@DJSockmonkeyMusicbecause it got axed right when it found its direction

@merafirewing6591 6 ай бұрын

@@keit99 essentially the whole series was thrown under the bus with zero cares when it's beginning to gain momentum.

@Lonovavir 6 ай бұрын

I'd like to see these guys more in Trek media. Get say, an Andorian security chief, a Tellarite Engineer on a non-Enterprise starship and make them main characters who are used to further develop their species.

@jakobxr 6 ай бұрын

It’s weird how the andorians and tellarites aren’t present as officers on starfleet vessels. They’re part of the federation yet they don’t have much on screen participation in starfleet like the Vulcans. I always thought the two were synonymous, now that I think about it it seems that starfleet is just an arm of the federation among the various planetary/species govts and their space forces

@user-yw3no7sg4d 6 ай бұрын

@jakobrx Lower Decks shows that it is most likely the case. Even Vulcan has a separate fleet.

@thomasheinz7840 6 ай бұрын

There actually is an andorian security chief (Lenissa zh'Thiin) in the german book series "Star Trek Prometheus". And there also is Commander Roaas, who is caitianen. It's still very sad these important species are so enormous underrepresented in starfleet, the known films and series.

@EtanRedKnight 6 ай бұрын

Watch Star Trek Prodigy! Jankom Pog, one of the protagonist, is the engineer of the group. He actually has an interesting backstory as a Tellarite colonist from a generation ship (before warp speed). There is also an Andorian first officer in the show, serving Admiral Janeway in the USS Dauntless.

@avahenson4565 6 ай бұрын

Jankom Pog was such a fun character, for how much skill he has I would totally put up with the attitude/shenanigans

@while_coyote 6 ай бұрын

Tellarites are space dwarves. Vulcans are space elves. Klingons are space orcs. At the end of the day, everything is Tolkien.

@michaeld8304 6 ай бұрын

who are the Hobbits?

@vicneko4443 6 ай бұрын

We need more tellarite representation, dammit!

@crisper1614 6 ай бұрын

Always wanted more tellarites.

@marshallhuffer4713 6 ай бұрын

Enterprise really got a chance to flesh out the Tellarites.

@ThommyofThenn 6 ай бұрын

That episode where the tellarite bounty hunter with a heart of gold captures Archer for instance. Of all the infamous "Archer in prison/gets tortured for extended periods" episodes, I would say that episode by FAR has the coolest looking jail cell. And that's on a god damn spaceship. Those idiots who ran the sulliban death camp were, frankly, fairly boring with their cell design

@violetlight1548 6 ай бұрын

Tellerites are awesome, and like Andorians, need far more representation. We need both to feature as regular crew members in a live-action show.

@NextToToddliness 6 ай бұрын

As most people say, despite its flaws, Enterprise really helped to expand the original lore and create updates to a lot of the makeup. I never gave the Tellarites much thought until Enterprise and I've since grown to find them unique and fun. Though admittedly, I didn't care for how New Trek has portrayed them. I feel like a lot of the aliens in those shows get the Lord-of-the-Rings-ification treatment and end up looking too Orc-ish. All-in-all great video!

@mutensword602 6 ай бұрын

We need more Tellarlites in more trek!

@Dragondude2525 6 ай бұрын

Tellarites were always wild to me, but also pretty cool!

@MrAndyBearJr 6 ай бұрын

I would definitely have a few Tellarites on my crew. They are some of the best engineers in the Federation, bar none. Having a Tellarite chief engineer would be the next best thing to having Montgomery Scott, and would be worth the extra headache of them being somewhat argumentative, as that would also entail having an advisor with the ability to look at different views of a situation as that adversarial nature reflects a mind that looks to consider all facets of that situation before making a decision. Sometimes troublesome, but more often than not, very valuable.

@bumbleguppy 6 ай бұрын

Hell yeah, I want a new season of Enterprise with Shran and a Tellerite on the bridge. Oh T'pol, you're in for it now.

@middleearthemarxist2433 6 ай бұрын

Who wouldn't want to serve with the greatest Tellarite commander ever; Captain Link Hogthrob! 🐽

@jamesabernethy7896 6 ай бұрын

Although we've seen small snippets of Tellarites in most series, there has been much more material than I thought. I wonder how it would have been in the early days of the federation. Ships with crewmembers of all 4 species still learning to culturally work alongside each other.

@ThommyofThenn 6 ай бұрын

Tellarites have been around since like s2 of TOS yet it wasn't until I had watched every series that I realised they were a "thing" with a history in the franchise. They're not as obnoxious and stupid as ferengi plus they're fairly generic looking pig men style aliens without many stand out features. At least Orions are green so you can see who they are based on skin colour. Tellarites just look like unkempt middle aged men

@nutherefurlong 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, I've sort of wanted a stronger early Federation feeling back when there were fewer peoples known to the Federation and they hadn't quite worked out their differences yet.

@ThommyofThenn 6 ай бұрын

But in response to your comment, I agree it would have been so cool to get a series of the actual formation of the Federation, not just the events immediately before it. I want to see the awkward exchanges as actual Starfleet personal from other species learn to work together. I want to see planning and procurement staff determining how best to go about meeting nutritional requirements of other species in the context of extended exploratory missions. Very cool ideas so thanks for posting and making me think about it

@Hopelessdreamer441 6 ай бұрын

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@AJFisherDesign 6 ай бұрын

Great video. Thanks. I’m designing and building a small, TOS style starship. I am planning to tell Trek Tales in time using my starship as a digital stage. I enjoyed your video as I’m planning a Tellarite captain and Ithenite chief medical officer. As others have said, I want to see more TOS alien races on my starship. I like the idea of a Tellarite captain with 3 digits on one hand and 5 on the other. Like the Romulan brow ridges I think there could be T’s w either 3 or 5 fingers or on rare occasion, both! Thanks again.

@toonezon4836 6 ай бұрын

i'm only 30 seconds into the video, but unless otherwise stated, it seem tellarites were the only one of the 4 founding members of the united federation of planets not to break away in the time after/leading up t the burn. truely, as jankum pog would say, federation royalty.

@BTScriviner 6 ай бұрын

I always enjoy your videos on the different species of Trek.

@dramonmaster222 6 ай бұрын

Once again, another fantastic video OrangeRiver!

@OrangeRiver 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@rmeddy 6 ай бұрын

You talk about Tellarites without mentioning Jankom Pog?! Jankom Pog is offended

@JasonCummer 6 ай бұрын

Any data on how many ship yards they have. This has been a question i have had since Picard. Where or how many other ship yards are there in the federation?

@nathanmintier6838 6 ай бұрын

Hey, it came up on my homepage. I've noticed some type of change in the algorithm, hopefully for the better. Great video on an under reported on species! 🎁

@Baelor-Breakspear 6 ай бұрын

Glad you finally got some sponsorships. That’s awesome man

@benjaminrosario187 6 ай бұрын

This was great. Tellarites are one of the few Trek species I'm unfamiliar with. Great video, great timing.

@derekbootle8316 6 ай бұрын

Tellerites make the best first officers. Argumentative and I tellegent help in making the right decision

@MatthewCaunsfield 6 ай бұрын

Great start to the year, one of the founding members of the Fed 👍

@OrangeRiver 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Matt!

@swiftheadkick 6 ай бұрын

You have no idea how much I appreciate you using your knowledge and love of the show to make this content thank you it really shows how much work you put into them

@OrangeRiver 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@JD.78 6 ай бұрын

Great video as always, cheers.

@PuffyCloud_aka_puffeclaude 6 ай бұрын

If I were a fed, I'd probably move to Tellar. Honestly, I'd fit in better.

@zenkomenhi 6 ай бұрын

In my own fiction, Tellarite engineers helped design the superstructure for the Radiant-class, and I wrote that there's at least one story of a Radiant-class crashing into an asteroid and still being repairable. Tellarites build things to LAST

@patrickborn3494 6 ай бұрын

you just know these galaxy-known haters drop the most fire fucking diss tracks

@ThommyofThenn 6 ай бұрын

Andoria more like asnoria, blue skin mfs always tryna bury ya. Disrupta to ya dome they sendin your ashes home. And to Sh'ran..you antenna are small you try to save your daughter but you really lack the wherewithal You had to ask Archer for help again and yet youre so ungrateful you keep calling him 'pink skin'

@Noms_Chompsky 6 ай бұрын

Oh you know it, when they're on the mic they go all Uruk Hai on them sucker mc's

@oldered5663 6 ай бұрын

Tellarites designed the TOS enteprise, so yes

@seanbrown453 6 ай бұрын

One exception is books licensed by paramount pyctitpre such as the evpcyclopedia

@Noms_Chompsky 6 ай бұрын

It's a shame Tellarites are never really in any of the shows that much, but if they were then they'd just go all Uruk Hai upside some Klingon's head and do all the winning and steal the show all of the time.

@pfcn2 6 ай бұрын

Tellarites as mediators with the Orions.

@CDiepenbroek 6 ай бұрын

Any new OrangeRiver video day is a good day. Also, MYCELIAL NETWORK 👉

@isaacburrows8405 6 ай бұрын

THE MYCELLIAL NETWORK!

@colinhand3868 6 ай бұрын

Space Tripping on shrooms

@PauperJ 6 ай бұрын

The Tribbles are the backbone of The Dominion.

@meswoopnoseenothing 4 ай бұрын

I think it would be fun if they explain the three hooves fingers as a genetic aberration that occasionally pops up, like an evolutionary throwback.

@bencheevers6693 3 ай бұрын

When I saw this video I thought it was going to be the tellurions, which isn't actually a race in star trek, I figured it would be the tellurites because they are everywhere and often the federation president, I like the Andorians as a founding member better, they had a lot of potential in enterprise, one of the highlights of that show, especially the vulcan episode

@JanetStarChild 6 ай бұрын

Do the gloved hands in the sponsor ad belong to 'Mirror Universe' Taylor?

@blacknrd05 6 ай бұрын

Good Job!!!

@OrangeRiver 6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jayhouston7054 6 ай бұрын

I wonder if they taste good? I do like pork chops, pulled pork samiches, spare ribs, ect..mmmmm.

@joeywall4657 6 ай бұрын

Yaaaaaaay!! 🐷🤠

@palmercolson7037 6 ай бұрын

I think that the Tellarites have not shown up very much on Star Trek is that besides some difficulties with the makeup, the writers have not had a good and compelling story to associate with them. They are stout and argumentative and dependable, but that hasn't given the writers anything to say with them.

@palmercolson7037 6 ай бұрын

@@discobolos4227 Oh, dependable is a poor choice of words. It is supposed to include all the "prominent species of the Federation", "technology", "science", "public servants" and all the other terms from the video. The issue is that they were just never mentioned very much even in passing. Like I said, the writers couldn't figure out how to use them as individual characters in so many series until one shows up in Enterprise and then other series start including a Tellarite. I don't have Paramount+ so I haven't watched a lot of the series beside Picard and Strange New Worlds, so I saw only one or more in three different series in the video.

@shmee123ful 6 ай бұрын

if vulcans are the space elves of star treck, tellarites are space dwaths but what about the ocompa some may ask, space pickexs

@katsarelas1947 6 ай бұрын

THAT cadet was a tellerite?! Did they mention it in the ep and I missed it??? I mean I know disco had some design choices but everyone besides season 1 Klingons are still fairly close to other depictions??

@katsarelas1947 6 ай бұрын

Also, I thought they were shorter? Though I kinda mix them with the Ugnaughts from Star Wars…

@dwmadroxxide5090 6 ай бұрын

I'll stick with the Bolians thank you.

@anthonystone2089 6 ай бұрын

The Tellerites are Dwarves, Vulcans are elves, Klingons are orcs.

@schlas2 6 ай бұрын

the makeup design for tallarites in discovery are really bad im comaparasion to enterprise and strange new world, however the latter is also inferior to the former. it seems though the tellarite designs are all over the place in between all shows and movies they feature in. sometimes the have 3 fingers, other times 5. sometimes their faces are forced to look like antropomorphic pigs with giant tusks... anyways. enterprises depiction is just really well done and the species is also featured really cool (space dwarfs :D )

@knightspearhead5718 6 ай бұрын

Probably wouldnt accept one in my crew i cant even get along with argumentative humans :P

@FuzzyBunnyofInle 6 ай бұрын

Planet of the Dad bods.

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@alexisdespland4939 6 ай бұрын

can you do a video about the cat people like the doctor on strange new world,

@Anonymous-sy7or 6 ай бұрын

Does fue cut food cravings?

@Gurianthe 6 ай бұрын

orbital lift* fify

@colinleat8309 6 ай бұрын

It's been how many years since Enterprise? I'm still wrapping my brain around Tellerites and Andorians be part of the big 4 founding members. In my head cannon it was the Betazoids, or Trill, or Bolians etc...I'd like to get in an argument with a Tellerite, Monty Python style! 🤣🤣. Thanks so much Tyler, great start to the new year! 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦🕊️

@michaeld8304 6 ай бұрын

see what you have done to me OR? Everytime I hear "mycelial network" I do the OR slap and point.

@ExpoDyn 6 ай бұрын

Are Tellarites the Karens of the Star Trek universe? They begin their social interactions with a series of complaints 😂

@Lonovavir 6 ай бұрын

Complaining and brutal honesty are Tellarite for hello.

@Noms_Chompsky 6 ай бұрын

Tellarite don' tell no wrongs yo

@Analog_Mind47 6 ай бұрын

Why did you choose That for the thumbnail

@Malcolm2054 6 ай бұрын

Hey. I was just wondering if you were ever going to do a betazoid video. They're my favorite race and I'd love to get your take.

@stingyblue8189 Ай бұрын

The backbone of the Starfleet? You hardly see one on screen let alone on a Federation ship or base. We’ve never ever seen Tellar Prime. Humans are the backbone and damn near everything else in Starfleet. The Federation is our empire. We’re only ones fighting and dying for it.

@Aragorn7884 6 ай бұрын

Cringe to the ST:E green screen effects 😬

@seanbrown453 6 ай бұрын

Whar are your sources as books don't count and are not canon.

@OrangeRiver 6 ай бұрын

What are my sources for...which part? Unless I'm directly referring to a supplementary reference source like Star Charts or Stellar Cartography, the info predominantly comes from the, y'know, episodes and films...