Before the Federation : The Tellarite Voice Wars

Let's take a look at Tellarites .. what little information we have on them.. The Voice Wars was a very interesting thing I saw..
Here's my take on Before the Federation : The Tellarite Voice Wars
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[@UncleMikeDrop]

The Tellarites exemplify the "agree to disagree" perspective. All points are valid to them if said points can be argued effectively.

[@CelticCubby]

I was hoping in Enterprise we would see more of the founding races. I remember initially being disappointed that Phlox wasn't a Tellarite.

[@LoreReloaded]

My understanding that there was a plan to do so.. and it was cut short alas.

[@yachiyous9110]

Phlox is a denobulan

[@CelticCubby]

Agent Gambut no kidding. I said I was disappointed he wasn't a Tellarite, it would have brought Tellarite into the show.

[@2bituser569]

Vontux I agree mostly but the tcw could have been included as 6 episode arc or something smaller scale but it spanned two seasons instead of 1/4-1/2 of a season.

[@krishenjalali3266]

Good point. With them introducing new species all the time, they should have taken the opportunity to flesh out one of the originals. Make Phlox a Tellarite and you now have 3/4 of the UFP's founders regularly working together for the first time. Granted, they did an awful job writing Human-Vulcan friction, so a different species probably wouldn't be any different.

[@tiggergolah]

Tellarites remind me of New Yorkers... crass, sometimes rude, hard to become friends with, but a good friend in a pinch nonetheless.

[@Lokiawa]

You left out Shran's reason for the Duel, which was to avenge the death of his XO/mate after one of the Tellerite diplomats shot Shran's mate/XO who then after complications died from the wound caused by the shot.

[@LoreReloaded]

That would seem important

[@kevinvandal8595]

In my Head canon Tellarites are the bureaucratic power of the Federation. The unseen ones in the back door chambers how make the Federation bureaucracy work like a well oiled machine :P

[@nurlindafsihotang49]

..you mean charming as a snake, eh?

[@edwardaugustus9680]

That makes a lot of sense and would be a good way to explain why they aren't seen much in universe. The Humans and Andorians lean more towards military service while the Vulcans have tended to act as the diplomats.

[@jawstrock2215]

@@edwardaugustus9680 Diplomats, and scientist I bet.

[@OttoKreml]

That would help to explain how it operates at all.

[@thomaskirkness-little5809]

My head canon is that uniforms were brightly coloured so that Tellarites could easily identify people's department from a distance.

[@ancientflames6679]

I've always wondered why the Denobulans didn't join as founding members of the Federation. It almost seems as though they had a closer bond with Humans than Tellarites did.

[@miles2378]

I'm not familiar with the Enterprise books how do you know they did not join.

[@2bituser569]

Christopher Bloom they joined but not initially as the first 4-5 did together at once.

[@NorybDrol82]

Tellarites are a race of internet trolls?

[@LoreReloaded]

The Original OG

[@Darbobski]

No wonder they like humans so much!

[@victorselve8349]

Except they actually get stuff done.

[@edwardaugustus9680]

That moment when you realise the whole Andorian internet is just 4Chan on a massive scale.

[@reddayoan5714]

The impression I got from the Tellarites in Enterprise is that while they have some diplomatic relations with Vulcan and a tense one with the Andorians is that they are the weakest of the four founding races. Note races as Alpha Centauri despite being human colonized it is among the five founding members of the Federation. Meaning it was independent of United Earth. Why is it the weakest? Well that Tellarite bounty hunter was a freighter captain that got his ship stolen and kidnapped Archer so he can buy his ship back. Klingon dare not enter Vulcan space in Enterprise and DSC gives us a good reason why. I assume Andorians would be similar daunting to Klingons of the era. Archer notes the Tellarites argumentive nature makes them good politicians. In TOS we see the Tellarite ambassador argue against Corridan's application to the Federation. Serving as a devil's advocate of a sort. Not to mention Tellarites had mining interests on Corridan.

[@MandalorV7]

These guys are space dwarfs.

[@LoreReloaded]

+Jacob Clark Indeed

[@LoreReloaded]

Space Dwarf magic

[@benallen7704]

Space Hobbits

[@TentaclePentacle]

no they are space pigs not dwarfs. Andorians are space slugs, and then you get the caitian the space cats.

[@schott106]

If only one more season of enterprise

[@jasonolson5630]

For founding members of the Federation they haven’t been used like the Vulcans.

[@averymartin1327]

Everyone says they're ugly but I find them kinda cute.

[@Mrpurple75]

I agree, more Tellarites

[@johnnykilroy4684]

I like the Tellarites; I find them - in a very odd way - quite cool for some reason.

[@James-lh7rj]

Johnny Kilroy dude I love your profile icon did you design it yourself?

[@johnnykilroy4684]

James 501 Thanks! I did not design it though, it’s actually a thing called the ‘Seal of Rassilon’ from Doctor Who (it’s a pretty iconic symbol from within the show).

[@joshythehand2960]

They remind me of the mountain dwarves.

[@edwardaugustus9680]

The Tellarites comes across as the Dwarfs of the original 4. The Vulcans being the Elves. The Andorians don't have as much of a clear connection to a standard fantasy race but could be considered to be any warrior or Arctic dwelling race

[@jawstrock2215]

Ice warriors :)

[@toddballard1839]

Greetings Mr Lore as always excellent. .. if you want a good non cannon resource Star trek rpg had a historys of all the main races.. it was produced by Last Unicon Games

[@markturneymusic8294]

I'd love a Paul Giamatti engineer Tellarite, with serious ligitator chops.

[@kaveharzie4967]

Last Unicorn Games had an amazing Lore setup. Thanks for bringing up the Voice Wars!

[@joshythehand2960]

Tellerites are kind of like the mountain dwarves of space..

[@shaindaman13]

Shran, in my opinion is hands down one of, if not THE the best reoccurring characters in all Trek history. But this comes from a guy that never cared for Q.

[@LoreReloaded]

I like him

[@gamaliellysandercabria7856]

They should expand tellarite in an animation show around the time of star trek enterprise (or the founding of federation)

[@HeadlessChickenTO]

I always found it funny how Enterprise lead up to the Tellarites reveal on their show. They were used as a type of insult in a number of instances up till they introed that merc who captured Archer for the Klingon bounty.

[@BrowncoatInABox]

There are 2 species i want a trek show of the Tallarites and Andereans

[@bushwhakked]

The Tellarites are really from New York.

[@LoreReloaded]

Mother of god..

[@questaoolavo2346]

in star trek online is sayed that they make de adaptation of ttellarite, vulcans, humans and andorians tecnology to starfleet in the early years of the coalizion that create federation and the starfleet that we know

[@2bituser569]

It’s possible given a few more years the Tellarotes might have had development on Enterprise series we did get more fleshing put of early Vulcan relations and Andorians how we met and formed a bond to them.

[@demarcusfaulkner7411]

my thing with enterprise was not seeing enough of how star fleet became so organized.

[@thod8820]

I would be a Tellorite...

[@thepbg8453]

Dwarves!!!! IN SPACE!!!!!!!

[@DOWSOE]

I swear the first Tellarite costume looked like a Muppet.....

[@LoreReloaded]

Yea, one of the reasons I used that image..

[@numbers9to0]

Ugnauts.

[@marshallbanana7296]

Lore Reloaded, I have an interesting bit of beta-cannon that is now rendered defunct that you might find at least entertaining, concerning the Tellarites.This comes from a book, printed in 1980, called the "Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology". It's a fun book to read, as it covers Earth's space history from about 1957 to the start of the 2200s. It apparently breaks all kind of cannon, including such tidbits as Zefrem Cochrane being an Alpha Centurian who explained his theory about generating a warp field to the visiting human crew of a sublight exploration ship. Anyway, the Tellarites. I will now quote a passage from the book. CELESTIAL NEIGHBORS CLAIM OUR SOLAR SYSTEM - Earth and Tellar begin alliance after unusual incident - 2073 - UNSS Bonhomme Richard, Liberty Class; Abel Niwen, Admiral WHile the first meeting between Tellar and Earth had its awkward moments, as described by the following Log, these two worlds went on to become allies and trading partners. After over a decade of growing interaction and disputation, Earth and Tellar joined together with other charter members to form the United Federation of Planets Admiral's Log: The crisis is over, and the first interstellar hostilities have been resolved without a single laser being discharged. I've relaxed Fleet Battlestations and halted the Sixth Fleet reinforcements advance at Neptune. The war 's over before it began, and it appears, though I'm damned if I understand it, that we've just gained a new interstellar ally, the Tellarites. I'm proud to report our Solar Defense Perimeter functioned superbly in this, its first test ever. Pluto Base stellar radar picked up the rapid approach of an alien vessel, and by the time it arrived, ten cruisers had been deployed to meet the ship, a modest-looking craft with foreign markings. Then things became peculiar. In crude, gutteral English, a gruff voice broadcast to us the surprising news that we had just been claimed as an addition to the Tellarite Territories, and that if we did not immediately surrender, we would be summarily destroyed. Here was a lone, somewhat backward looking ship, threatening ten heavily armed cruisers with extinction. Did they have a secret super-weapon on board? I doubted it. So in my best diplomatic voice, I called their bluff. I welcomed them to our Solar System, said we were always delighted to meet new intelligent lifeforms, and told them if they made a single hostile movement, we would destroy their ship. A very long silence followed, broken finally by the still gruff voice accepting our offer of friendship and exclaiming that as allies we would be an invincible duo. SO there it is. We have met the Tellarites and apparently are now their allies. I wonder if they're always so combative. It's the strangest war I've ever fought.

[@peterlynch1458]

I hope we see reimagined Tellarites in Discovery.