DS9 Creatures

[kira_nerys]

First time posting on the forum here

I have been re-watching DS9 and I love the incorporation of other world creatures which seems to made their way into all the alien languages at the station. For example, Baneriam Hawks ('If Wishes Were Horses') , Algorian Mammoths ('The Wire'), Two-Headed Malgorians ('Progress'), Wanoni Tracehounds ('The Forsaken'). I am probably missing a lot on this list. I love how the writing incorporates them as similes to compare to humanoid behavior (eg Quark complaining about how Odo watches him like a 'Baneriam Hawk')

I have been trying to make a list of all the comparisons and think about what these creatures could possibly look like. Unfortunately most of these systems are pretty unknown so my intuitions are Terran limited.

 

[kkt]

Star Trek liked to use otherworldly creatures back in the original series too.
Did TNG not do this? Is this another TOS-ism that DS9 picked up?

 

[kira_nerys]

Star Trek liked to use otherworldly creatures back in the original series too.
Did TNG not do this? Is this another TOS-ism that DS9 picked up?

I believe there's some in TNG as well. I remember the episode with a comparison to an Rigelian Ox ('The Schizoid Man'). Though I think it was less frequent as compared to the writing in DS9 (?)

 

[Orphalesion]

And there was also that time of TNG when Q took the shape of an "Aldebaran Serpent", which is apparently a spherical creature with three cobra heads.

 

[frankieteardrop]

In "Hippocratic Oath," Kira compares Quark to a Rakonian swamp rat.