The Faction of True Kelvans, the greatest of the four, won out through the invention of the molecule restructuring matrices employed onto the buckle of the belts they wore. Planet of origin: The returning armada brought back with it an enemy worse than the Relons: alien bacteria. Hence the Excelsior had "Transwarp" drive in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Centuries ago, Kelvans became aware of dangerously rising radiation levels in their home galaxy, a crisis expected to make their galaxy uninhabitable by their species within 10,000 years. The Kelvans were a highly intelligent non-humanoid species, native to the planet Kelva in the Andromeda Galaxy. The Reliant class USS Jean Valjean (NCC-24601) Was Destroyed during this Conflict. Directed by Marc Daniels. By the end, the Empire had split into four factions. This allowed them to create paralysis fields - shifting the molecules of air into solids - and to turn living organisms into their base elements. SPECIES Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Kelvan Empire (TOS episode: "By Any Other Name"). But in doing so, they upset the balance of the Andromeda Galaxy. They ruled the Kelvan Empire with an iron fist. ... Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. The plague devastated thousands, lasting one hundred years. (TOS: "By Any Other Name"), By the 24th century, there had been at least one additional encounter with Kelvans by Starfleet personnel. The individual devices worn by a team of Kelvans functioned in tandem with a central field projector of extensive range. The explorer crews would spend several generations on their journey, and were ordered to search for new territories and to report on their suitability for conquest and occupation. They also had hooked claws on their appendages, a blowhole, and a beak. (TOS: "By Any Other Name"). The Kelvans' technological knowledge after the launch of their multi-generation starships is unknown, but the technology possessed by Rojan's team when they made contact with the Enterprise was far beyond the Federation's abilities of that period. A mutated form of the plague brought back by the Kelvan armada invaded their galaxy again. Though in 2268, when the Kelvans made first contact with humans, they looked very human themselves, this was just a form of artificial skin which they wore when encountering "inferior" races, to hide their true, beautiful forms. A Kelvan is a race of non-humanoid aliens from Kelvah notable as the rulers of the infamous Kelvan Empire of the Andromeda Galaxy. The Kelvan Empire dispatched a wave of swift, multi-generational starships to the neighboring galaxies. Affiliation: With similar ease, the devices were capable of a far more drastic change to a target. Kelvan blood composition is not known, but it is fluorescent, translucent blue when oxygenated and is poisonous to species with copper-based blood such as Vulcans or Romulans. Kelva (TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before"), Their engineering skills allowed them to quickly modify comparatively primitive and alien technologies, making them perform on par with their own. An adult Kelvan was twice the size of an adult Klingon male. (TOS: "By Any Other Name"), Montgomery Scott introduces Tomar to drinking. Their faster-than-light propulsion systems permitted the crossing in a reasonable time, spanning only a few Kelvan generations, while a Constitution-class starship running at maximum warp would take thousands of years to complete the journey. Their original form is oddly shaped, containing hundreds of tentacle limbs, and have none of the emotional concepts shared by most humanoids. The Kelvans who manned the armada were by now immune to it, but the people of the Andromeda Galaxy were not. One Kelvan starship left Andromeda sometime in the 1960s, and reached the Milky Way Galaxy in 2268. With a touch, a Kelvan could immobilize multiple targets with a neural field that selectively neutralized nerve impulses to their voluntary muscles or, if necessary, the device could instantly "distill" a lifeform, suspending animation and encoding the target's physical form and personality into a compact dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solid, composed of the target's base minerals. Civil war broke out, each of the factions vying to survive in a dying galaxy. The Kelvans adopted the humanoid forms common to our galaxy, which would likely be more compatible with potential transportation than their Andromedan forms. Gray-skinned, they were bald, and had four, black, beetle-like eyes above a conical mouth filled with shark-like teeth. Kelvan upgrades to the USS Enterprise permitted the ship to pass through the negative energy of the galactic barrier unharmed, and was expected to arrive in Kelvan space only three hundred years after departure. Star Trek Expanded Universe is a FANDOM TV Community. They also had hooked claws on their append… As the trip progresses, however, Spock realizes that, having taken human form, the Kelvans are now developing emotions. Ironically though, Kelvans naturally lack advanced sensation or emotional receptors in their brains. Kelvans carried a device (worn on belts around their waist in their humanoid form) that served as a weapon, defense, and instrument of obedience. More Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki. The person could be reconstituted from their solid state at any time, as long as the solid remained intact. The projector was shielded by a metallic substance, similar to diburnium, but considerably more dense and impervious to phaser fire. The First Federation, apparently, was the only force of the Milky Way Galaxy that could halt the initial invasion of the Kelvan Empire. Kelvans were an intelligent and rigidly disciplined non-humanoid species from the planet Kelva, located in the Andromeda Galaxy, and masters of the Kelvan Empire. The Kelvans' original form compared to humanoids is immense. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button. As the trip progresses, however, Spock realizes that, having taken human form, the Kelvans are now developing emotions. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. The Kelvan War was a conflict between the Kelvans and the combined forces of the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire in 2285. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kelvan?oldid=2612444. (TOS episode: "By Any Other Name"). Rojan described the transference process as "encasing" themselves in "humanoid shells". Contents[show] True Appearance Though in 2268, when the Kelvans made first contact with humans, they looked very human themselves, this was just a form of artificial skin which they wore when encountering "inferior" races, to hide their true, beautiful forms. A Kelvan female has a numerous amount of breeding pods attached to her anterior portion starting at where mammaries would be on a humanoid female and going all the way down to the pelvic girdle (or at least, their version of one). (DS9 episode: "Time's Orphan") The Kelvans also had an incredibly disciplined mind, which allowed them to operate each of their hundred tentacle-like limbs independently, but any Kelvan soldier worth his pay grade would have lost at least ten of them in normal combat. In the larva stage, the baby Kelvan is a large mass of almost a hundred tentacles, three times the size of a humanoid (such as a Klingon). (DS9: "Time's Orphan") Their complex minds possessed sufficient discipline to operate each of their hundred tentacle-like limbs independently, but their superior intellectual capacity developed at the cost of more distracting emotions and sensory perceptions. CBS Entertainment | This site and its contents ® & © 2020 CBS Studios Inc. © 2020 CBS Television Distribution and CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. (DS9: "Time's Orphan") Their complex minds possessed sufficient discipline to operate each of their hundred tentacle-like limbs independently, but their superior intellectual capacity developed at the cost of more distracting emotions and sensory perceptions. The projector was shielded by a metallic substance, similar to diburnium, but considerably more dense and impervious to phaser fire. After a period of five to eight weeks, the larva will start to secrete a mucous substance (fluorescent blue) that covers it entirely.

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