Star Trek: The Next Generation Cats: (Star Trek Book, Book about Cats) (Star Trek X Chronicle Books)

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A cat ( Felis catus) was a small predatory mammal from Earth, that were noted to purr when happy or content. A young cat was called a kitten.

Jonesy also gets credit for being one of the rare cats to make it to the end of a horror movie, and he even makes a cameo appearance in the sequel. (Warning: The above clip is a bit violent, though Jonesy doesn’t get hurt.) A "Gorokian feline" was referred to in the first draft script of VOY: " Death Wish". However, this creature was renamed a Gorokian midwife toad by the time the episode was shot. Individual cats [ ] The novel Survivors by Jean Lorrah includes a brief portrayal of Tasha's childhood, including her cat. The animated Star Trek could do things that the not-animated Star Trek couldn’t, like have a crewmember who was a sentient, bipedal cat by the name of Lt. M’Ress. She was from the planet Cait, because ÔǪ well, of course she was, and she had a tendency to purr/ululate between sentences. Indeed, there weren’t a whole lot of cats in science fiction until Star Trek came long; there’d been more of a fascination with monkeys, in movies such as Forbidden Planet and especially Robinson Crusoe on Mars, in which "Mona, the Woolly Monkey" got third billing in the trailer.

I also still enjoy all those elements of pop culture, particularly Star Trek, partially because of all the various cats in the various Treks over the years. stunt double: DeForest Kelley (uncredited) / stunt double: Leonard Nimoy (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) (3 episodes, 1966-1968) Individuals of this type were often kept as pets among Humans. Examples of cats kept as pets included Spot, owned by Data, ( TNG: " Data's Day", " In Theory", " Schisms") Neelix, owned by Reginald Barclay, ( VOY: " Pathfinder") and Chester, owned by Liam Bilby and, later, Miles O'Brien. ( DS9: " Honor Among Thieves", " Time's Orphan") William T. Riker and LaForge had bad experiences with cats, but Beverly Crusher and Deanna Troi loved them. ( TNG: " Force of Nature", " Timescape", " Phantasms") stunt double: Michael Pataki (uncredited) / stunt double: William Shatner (uncredited) (2 episodes, 1967) stunt double: William Shatner (uncredited) / stunt double (uncredited) / stunt double: John Fiedler (uncredited) / stunt knight (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) (11 episodes, 1966-1969)

The fearsomeness of the Kzinti in that episode is somewhat undone by their pink-and-purple uniforms, a result of director Hal Sutherland’s unfortunate color-blindness. stand-in: Leonard Nimoy (uncredited) / hand double: Michael Strong (uncredited) / photo double: Michael Strong (uncredited) (78 episodes, 1966-1969) In 2267, the alien Sylvia demonstrated the power to assume the form of a cat. She accomplished this feat with the aid of a device called the transmuter, which was the one element of her wardrobe that did not change shape. ( TOS: " Catspaw") They’re not in outer space space — they’re on a Convair C-131, and they didn’t go higher than 12,000 feet — but they’re real cats from 1947, and they’re floating in zero gravity! It was part of cruelty-free experiment in weightlessness by the U.S. Air Force’s Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories in 1947. (Here’s the full video, of which the cats are just a minute and a half.)Unlike Jake, Jonesy is a regular, nontelepathic domestic cat, which raises an important question: Just what is a regular, nontelepathic domestic cat doing on a mining ship in space? The answers: to provide plenty of opportunities for "Boo!" scenes, and to watch impassively as the humans get killed off. Actually, this one is more of a shape-shifting alien cat who can occasionally turn into a woman, and then mostly does it to mess with people’s heads. (Wouldn’t your cat?) Cat" was one of numerous words Miles O'Brien used due to his infection of the aphasia virus. ( DS9: " Babel") stunt double: James Doohan (uncredited) / stunt double: Ned Romero (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) (7 episodes, 1967-1968) stunt double: Leonard Nimoy (uncredited) / stunt double (uncredited) / stunt double: DeForest Kelley (uncredited) (3 episodes, 1967)

Because Star Trek wouldn’t have happened without the U.S. space program and all the hard work that led up to it, we can’t forget the real-life cats who paved the way: Weightless cats, Bioastronautics Research In 2366, Jeremy Aster used to play "Captain Patches" with his pet cat, pretending Patches was a captain flying through space. ( TNG: " The Bonding") But Star Trek brought the focus to cats, where it belonged. Here are my favorites. 1. Sylvia, Star Trek, "Catspaw"

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Some animal training manuals claimed that cats, by nature, could not be trained. ( TNG: " Force of Nature") Unlike canines, they did not respond to verbal commands. ( TNG: " Force of Nature", " Phantasms") In the alternate reality, nearly a year after stardate 2259.55, after the USS Enterprise was rechristened, Captain James T. Kirk asked Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott about the performance of the new warp core. "Purrin' like a kitten, captain " was Scott's response. ( Star Trek Into Darkness) stunt double: Richard Tatro (uncredited) / stunt double: William Shatner (uncredited) (2 episodes, 1966-1967) model builder: Balok's ship and cube (uncredited) / model builder: Romulan Bird of Prey (uncredited) (2 episodes, 1966)

Not getting nearly as much screen time was the cat Chester, who appeared in only one episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but he’s worth mentioning because he was a rescue. It’s reassuring to know that even in the 24th century, people are still fighting the good fight. Christine Chapel has no feline counterpart in the book. [19] The Alfa 177 canine, Cyrano Jones, Khan Noonien Singh, Korax, and the mother Horta have appearances.In 2257, after surviving falling debris aboard the USS Discovery, Jett Reno compared herself to a cat having nine lives, with " five more lives, at least." ( DIS: " Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")