Galactic powers of consequence: Alpha-Beta Edition. United Federation of Planets Klingon Empire Romulan Star Empire Children of Tama - "Darmok's" ship was more powerful than the Federation's flagship. Cardassian Union Ferengi Alliance - ships equal to the Federation's best, lots of economic consequence to disrupting them, and lots if capital for mercenaries. Tholian Assembly Jarada - roughly equal to the Ferengi as a threat in early TNG. Breen Confederacy Sheliak Corporate - may have been higher if they weren't so fat away. Miradorn - Dominion signed a nonaggression pact with them before any of those below. Talarian Republic Tzenkethi Coalition Calamarain Zalkonians - had ships that could stop enemy crew from breathing...breathing!
Re: Galactic ower they're not a galactic power. they exist outside normal space-time. and you left off the Gorn Hegemony and the First Federation. there's also an argument to be made for the Metrons
Re: Galactic ower Visits to normal space-time don't count? Anyhoo, the Metrons are OK, but the Q aren't? Metrons appear and disappear out of thin air, grab folks off their ships, and generally have the power of life and death over others. I guess its their politeness that gets them your support.
Re: Galactic ower I was thinking their connection with a particular region of space surrounding that planet for the Metrons. They didn't venture beyond it like Q ventures everywhere.
Re: Galactic ower I purposely left out the hyper-powers like the Q, Orgainians, Metrons, Trellaine's people, others(?). I forgot about the First Federation, and purposely left out the Gorn because we don't know if they're around still in the 24th century - cognitive bias. Otherwise, I would have added the Xindi and Mazarites (who's core system the retooled satellite Nomad whiped out, sending the once formidable aliens into obscurity, if not extinction). I also made the list in a rough order of who you don't want to be in a war with...just to spark discussion.
^Huh? Anyone else remember any that I missed? What if we expanded it to the books, or moved to another quadrant?
A noobie posted a link to some trek community site that embraced vision and philosophy of trek a lot more than one sees here. A bit too much if you ask me. He must have deleted his post after I posted that.
Re: Galactic ower Nomad wiped out the Malurians, not the Mazarites. The Mazarites were the aliens from the Enterprise episode "Fallen Hero."
well, if you want to add the books into the mix, there's: the Danteri Empire (New Frontier series) the Thallonian Empire, now the Thallonian Protectorate (NF) the Holy Order of the Kinshaya (various books, including A Singular Destiny) the Patriarchy (star trek star charts)
Re: Galactic ower None of that would necessarily make the Metrons Q-like, nothing the Metron did precluded being the result of advance technology, and maybe not all that advanced. The Metron that Kirk saw could have arrived by a form of transporter, or Kirk could have seen a hologram. Kirk and the Gorn captain were moved by again a transporter, even remotely stopping both ships in space not too different than other alien technology on Trek.
What if they're just thousands years ahead of the Federation, the Organians millions, and the Q billions?
Galactic powers of consequence: Delta Edition. Caretaker - not native to our galaxy, but mighty powerful all the same. Borg Vaadwaar - the DQ power 900 years earlier reawakened, with an intact subspace corridor system. Voth - still kicking 65 million years after leaving Earth...though, what the hell have they been doing all that time? Hirogen - I'm unsure about this one. They're to be reckoned with but they've been in decline since the days they established their sprawling subspace network.
those fluidic space aliens think the borg couldnt assimalate them 8642 or something they were called. i know they werent really a part of the galaxy as such but they still had quite a presence in the delta quadrant.
i don't think i'd class the Caretaker as a galactic power when he was stuck orbitting one world and caring for it. i wouldn't class the Prophets as a galactic power either. nor Species 8472.