Vertian
- Appearance: Extremely thin, long-limbed humanoids; translucent heads; infrared-sensitive organs in place of eyes (ENT: "Silent Enemy"; ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)
- Homeworld: Gamma Vertis IV
- Able to sense local EM fields to a high degree of sensitivity
- Sensory capabilities concentrated in their hands
- Incapable of speech; individuals communicate via pulses of infrared light and bioelectric fields
- As a result, individuals of the species originally associated intelligence with ability to communicate via the above methods, treated most humanoid life as especially clever animals as a result
- Skin a transparent, chitinous material; inner tissues also somewhat translucent
- Native atmosphere denser, more humid, with CO2 concentrations fatal to most humanoid life
History
- Repeated but rare encounters with varying species over the early-22nd century in Kandari sector; usually negative due to lack of realization of sapience of other species
- 2151: First contact with Humans (ENT: "Silent Enemy")
- 2160: First contact with Andorians
- March-April 2163: "Vertian crisis"; Federation/neutral power task force assembles to fend off Vertian attacks, leading to opening of diplomatic relations (ENT Novel: A Choice of Futures)