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, including fluctuations in bioelectric fields
• Incapable of speech; individuals communicate via sensation of one another's bioelectric fields
  • As a result, individuals of the species originally associated intelligence with ability to communicate via modulation of personal bioelectric fields, treated most humanoid life as especially clever animals as a result

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)