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With a false distress call, Rojan lured and quickly captured Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise.

The molecule restructuring devices could not stop it, and the Kelvans were dying off.

Warp capable: Kirk's one advantage - they're not used to their adopted human form. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button. Galactic alien scouts capture the Enterprise for a return voyage and a prelude to invasion.

(TOS episode: "By Any Other Name"). The impression is that a Kelvan in true form, would never conduct themself in the manner that most humanoids do. Star Trek Expanded Universe is a FANDOM TV Community. Civil war broke out, each of the factions vying to survive in a dying galaxy. Rojan attempted to persuade Tamar that the Federation's desire for peace was genuine and that the Kelvans should accept, but Tamar refused all such overtures, insisting that the Kelvan conquest would overwhelm the entire galaxy. Described by Spock as "immense beings", Kelvans were in one form at least twice the size of an adult Klingon male. Kirk convinced Rojan that his new life as a humanoid could be experienced to the fullest on a world in the Federation, and a robotic envoy to Andromeda could fulfill his mission by delivering a peace proposal. The device could instantly "distill" a lifeform, suspending animation and encoding the essence of the target's physical form and personality into a compact and lightweight (the size of a Human fist) dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solid, composed of the target's base minerals. After its unification, a Kelvan armada was created for one purpose: conquering the Andromeda Galaxy. (TOS episode: "By Any Other Name"), Kelvan multi-generational starships were capable of sustained life through the voids between galaxies, which offered no way to replenish their supplies. Kelvans believed in their innate superiority, and deemed it the fate of lesser species to be conquered and ruled. Rojan and four others made it by life-craft to a safe, Class M planet but found existence in the great outdoors unnerving.

Ruthless but practical, their goals were expressed in plain, civil terms lacking any indication of bloodthirst. In the "beautiful" form, the Kelvans wore black plate armor, which could absorb all levels of phaser fire and could even stop a photon torpedo fired from orbit.

Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Written by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby (based on Bixby's story) and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast February 23, 1968. Once the Barrier was successfully breached, Kirk and his senior officers began a systematic subversion of the Kelvans' mission by exploiting their weaknesses: their inexperience with the new sensations offered by their humanoid bodies.