THOLIANS: Cultural Index

The Tholians are spider like, but not really. Like long hot walks in 480 Kelvin temperatures and high pressure atmospheres. Interests include time-space phenomena, territorial gain and weaving.

This is the Cultural Index a series aimed at exploring various Science-Fiction species.
For outsiders to a series to get to know the basics and maybe even hardened Sci-fi nuts might discover something new.
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Over on the Community tab there will be a voting option for one of the two species next up on the Index!

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[ItsJustVirgil]

Ironically, the Tholians are my favorite Star Trek species, simply due to the fact that they're the most honest politically; they don't lie about shit, and they mean their intentions perfectly.

[golgarisoul]

A lovely and truly alien species. One of my favourites from Star Trek.

[IDBRCvids]

Most of the footage of Tholians was from Enterprise "In a Mirror Darkly", which gave us the most information we ever saw about them. Talk about scoring two goals at once for a series. First, you get to see an origin for the mirror universe and then, you get to find out how different the Tholians are to us, physically as well. Brilliant episode!!

[MacAngem]

I wish to see Tholians interacting with Borg someday. Resisting to assimilation and so on.

[STNuevo]

You do a good research, I like the cultural index series. And I like the Tholians. Unfortunately, the visual effects were to expensive to see more of it. However, Enterprise in the mirror showed us a real Tholian, unfortunately tortured and killed by Phlox.

[dogofwar]

If the Tholian's have some connection to crystalline technology I wonder if they have any interaction with the Crysiline Entity from TNG?

[glennlaroche]

Dude, you just made an "alien of the week" one of the most fascinating Trek alien ever!!!!

[gordondavis]

The best backstory for the Tholians was from the 80s games Starfleet Battles. There, the Tholian ran a vast interstellar empire thousands of years ago. Their slave subjects revolted, and the Tholians retreated, dragging their home planet across space to a hidden area with their web technology. Thus, they remain secret active but autocratic.

[Hoshimaru]

Dad always described them simply as: space spiders.

[Lurker]

We also know they had an ambassador to the Federation dearing Captain Sisko's life. As he had some kind of relationship with that ambassador and was able to obtain a pease of Tholian silk.

[redwolf]

Tholians: you're treaspassing. Turn around or we'll shoot. We clear?

Me: crystal. (Snickers)

Tholians: *shoots instantly with no hesitation*

[Mr.Riojas]

Cool. The Tholians are one of my favorite races in the Star Trek Universe, and their history from that universe makes them even more interesting. The concept that they are fleeing their former galaxy where their rule was overthrown and due to the nature of that flight they did not retain the knowledge or take with them the means to produce more ships helped explain their intense territorial nature and xenophobia.

[andrewhills]

I loved seeing the full body of the tholians in startrek enterprise considering they didnt have much to go on from the orininal series episode part from thay head on a screen lol think they did a pretty good job

[LordBloodraven]

Arachnophobe: *KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!*

Vulcan: Such an action is highly illogical.

[ryanblackwell]

I'd like to see a vid on the Tzenkethi. Reading about them in the Typhon pact novels, their culture seems really interesting and worth a cultural index of their own. Especially since Sisko fought them with (then) Capt. Leyton. They're one of those species we only hear of in passing, but they are most definitely worth a review in my opinion.

[johnlukan]

Based on the environment they live in and the nature of their exoskeleton it's probably safe to assume that the tholians are a silicon based life form as current theories of silicon life would need a warmer environment and a lack of oxygen to remain stable

[planescaped]

Always one of my favorites, as they were one of the few times Star Trek got aliens right.

They aren't just space humans.

[bezerkurae]

I'm very curious of the Breen. Look forward to hopefully learning about them

[CristySFM]

I adore the Tholian species love em, lol thank you for the video, trekyards made one and were in-depth about their past

[soulman]

So, Tholians live in the same temperature range I use to bake biscuits? Interesting.