Chenari

• Appearance: Reptilian
  • Slightly larger than Humans (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
  • Horizontal torsos cantilevered by heavy tails (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
• Frilled heads with beaked mouths (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
• Bat-like wings (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
  • Capable only of gliding, not flight (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
• Homeworld: Chenar
• Rendered near-extinct mid-2263 following devastation of Chenar biosphere by Murasaki 274 radiation surge (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
• Several hundred rescued by USS Sacagawea following surge (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath, Ex Machina; VOY: "Q2")
• Biological notes
  • Oviparous (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
    • Annual spawning (TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)