BENZITES: Cultural Index

The Benzites are a species of achievers who measure every element of personal success and are competitive by nature. However they may have a darker history than you would have thought if we look deep enough into the lore.
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.
Thanks for watching!
How to VOTE on what happens next:
Over on the Community tab there will be a voting option for one of the two species next up on the Index!
IF YOU LIKED THIS CHECK OUT:
Cultural Index Series:
goo.gl/wKgdC7
Music from bensound.com, purple-planet.com and freesfx.co.uk
Star Trek Online developed by Cryptic Studios and Perfect World.
Star Trek, Star Trek Enterprise/Voyager/Deep Space Nine/Discovery/Lower Decks/Picard/Prodigy and The Next Generation are all owned and distributed by CBS.
Star Trek Films are owned and distributed by Paramount Pictures
Image stills are from Trekcore
This Video is for critical purposes with commentary.

[@stevengalloway8052]

When it comes to explaining the different alien 👽 species in Star Trek, no one's better, bar none. Excellent video, thank you... 👍👏

[@ZetaPrime77]

Geonosians would be cool to see a video about. One guy one KZbin looked into their language and how it works

[@josiahzabel8596]

EC Henry

[@golgarisoul]

I appreciate how common they are in the series Lower Decks.

[@YbarboCabrera]

Right!?! I love how animation allows for more non-humans to appear.

[@docsavage8640]

But Lower Decks is shit

[@chrisortega7521]

Do the MCRN!!! The Expanse is easily the best, realistic sci-fi show out there.

[@sushmitriyanbasuli6889]

The Expanse does make some glaring mistakes like gun shot sounds in space, ships going completely limp after propulsion loss etc.

[@chrisortega7521]

The gun sounds are just for dramatic effect. It would be odd to watch the Roci against the Amun-Ra in dead silence. As for the ships coming to a "stop" when hit, I think it's meant to show that said ship is no longer accelerating. Using a viewpoint-relativity shot, what we see as stopped is really because the other ship is still accelerating.

[@docsavage8640]

The Expanse is shit

[@quwykxz]

Thank you for this video; the Benzites are one of my favorite from the "lesser-known" Star Trek species, and I'm always on the look out for more info on them!

[@Okkusen]

I'm always so happy when you come up with a new cultural index video. Pls. Try to keep this up as long as possible ☺

[@thebeststooge]

Same, as I come in here as soon as I see them done.

[@badgerden7080]

Benzites must have been a shoe-in to get into the Federation. They are such a peaceful people.

[@theldraspneumonoultramicro405]

those breathers, there is multiple reasons for why you would notwear them like that, like for example it can easily get caught in things and be damaged or just simply being in the way, its also a highly ineffective and wastefull way to deliver the atmospheric mixture they need.

[@docsavage8640]

So...basically how Star Trek applies logic to everything

[@danzydan2479]

Good content.

[@Stomeruk]

The expanse title when you first showed it i though said Morn....which seems pretty funny to me since this was a star trek video

[@keithtorgersen9664]

I thought the same. And the icon for the earth government in the expanse looks very similar to UFP.

[@THATGuy5654]

I could be pondering the idea of meritocracy taken to a dark extreme and all it's implications, but instead I'm still still asking myself how likely it is that the females of a species that look like catfish would still have breasts. It kind of demonstrates what the Progenitors were prioritizing when they seeded all those planets with their DNA.

[@markfergerson2145]

Breast placement and morphology is a consequence of being upright bipeds with hands who give live birth to infants that require constant small meals loaded with specific nutrients. Look at other great apes. Compare with hand-less marsupials that feed their infants via test-like organs inside abdominal pouches. The Benzite mouth tentacles are irrelevant, you're assuming they must be fish.

[@isaacburrows8405]

Whats even the point of aliens if they don't have tits

[@docsavage8640]

Meritocracy has no dark extreme.

[@jhaarbur]

Great video @Certifiably Ingame! I had an idea for another video topic, so I'll post it on here: Even though the Federation is a super advanced, Level 2 society on the Kardashev scale, they still don't have all technologies mastered yet. I therefore think it'll be interesting to create a video of technologies and abilities that the Federation doesn't appear to have the ability to do yet at certain times in the genre. Examples: 1. Transwarp 2. Regular, stable live holofeeds across the galaxy. 3. Replicating dilithium crystals etc.

[@bellaususfitzpinguidpalate3194]

Yes!!! One of my fav species

[@MedalionDS9]

The original Vape Nation alien spieces

[@joshuabruce9599]

I'm now imagining a Benzite Federation officer being told off by a superior for cranking up their breathing thing. Just a Benzite bridge officer stepping out of the Turbolift in a cloud of smoke and proceeding to hotbox the bridge.

[@MedalionDS9]

@@joshuabruce9599 Hey hey hey hey... smoke Benzar everyday

[@theintelligentork7470]

7:35 woah they were very close to becoming dark eldar there

[@cezarsmau7580]

Do a video about M.C.R, please.

[@mb2000]

No mention of Hoya not needing the breathing apparatus, either because of her being female or due to some advancement in medical technology since early TNG!?

[@jameskelly3502]

Maybe a supplement or a vaccine of sort?

[@samwill7259]

My only thought is that...like, there's no way that that little tray would actually work to help them breathe. It'd just blow away if they did as much as turn their heads and the smoky gas itself seems really heavy, more likely to fall AWAY from the mouth rather than toward it.

[@docsavage8640]

Because otherwise Star Trek is logical 🤣

[@samwill7259]

@@docsavage8640 It's not immersion breaking or anything, it's just that the show is LITERALLY shoving it in my face every time the screen is on them

[@keithtorgersen9664]

I don’t know if the Androgov principle is exactly the same but it reminds me of the crime show numb3rs in which they dealt with a case in which sabremetrics was theoretically applied to a human being’s performance through their life. This discovery was very controversial because whole populations that are deemed mathematically inferior could potentially suffer widespread injustice.

[@stevieturner9338]

Thank you once again for the informitive video. Also learning the Genocians would be great.

[@jason-composer]

The MCRN and Geonosians are both interesting, but if I had to choose one, MCRN lore is probably less talked about than the Geonosians lol

[@RealengoPrimordialDemon]

Please do the MCR.

[@davejones9469]

That damn Benzite exchange crew member nearly started a new Klingon war! Put their Federation membership on probation! Double secret probation if necessary!

[@joseaguilar3323]

The MCRN next, please!!!!

[@antcow1239]

We named B-93 like that because we hate it! That moon sucks! - any given Benzite

[@OdariArt]

The MCRN has my vote.

[@davidmkohl1984]

Any time I watch your vids I'm tempted to reinstall STO.

[@garethcutler5651]

Geonosians please

[@TonksMoriarty]

Where's my Bothans, Rick?

[@aidiotjr8128]

I still want an Arkanian video just saying

[@PolarasDominion]

Both, Start with MCRN

[@matthewschuchardt684]

Definitely Star Wars

[@zacharyfreeman5237]

one more vote for the MCR.

[@companymen42]

MCRN beltalowda

[@dizzygiggleflix257]

Is there a culture that could tell how various races taste?

[@scottmantooth8785]

*do you mean how various foods taste to a given races or species or how other indigenous races encountered taste to the ones doing the tasting...bit of a tricky one being a diplomat or planetary representative if that's the case*

[@Awestefeld6612]

The Klingons maybe.

[@-JA-]

❤️👍

[@JaredlS10]

Wonder if the Benzite males are the only ones that require a breathing apparatus, since we see a female Benzite on the runabout that was destroyed by Jem Hadar wasn't wearing one.

[@mrfoxycracker4836]

Not familiar with the scene but it could be possible that if they were alone they could've adjusted the environmental controls so they didn't need the breathing apparatus

[@mb2000]

@@mrfoxycracker4836 That Benzite, Hoya, was crewing the runabout with two humans, Rooney and Bertram, at the time so changing the environment wouldn’t have been an option. So it’s either female Benzites don’t need the special gases, or by that time medical technology had advanced to the point where no Benzites required them anymore.

[@semorebutts6960]

I hate new trek and its piss poor writing but still love old or Real Star Trek. Still your channel is great,Death to new trek and life to the old ways of trek!

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

The Benzite breathing apparatus is just about the dumbest piece of technology imaginable. Being directly put into the air before being administered to a Benzite's physiology, it certainly would prove dangerous to other lifeforms, which would be readily exposed to the fumes. It would also be an incredibly inefficient piece of junk to start with. Also, the Benzite philosophy of waiting to report findings would be against stringent Federation protocol, as it in many instances could even put the lives of crew members at risk. It's amazing there are any Benzites in the Federation at all. Imagine the outcry if a Benzite manning a tactical post encountered what only might be a Borg ship on long range sensors and avoided reporting his findings to the crew. Then five minutes later the Borg intercept them much to the surprise of everyone on board.

[@toomanyaccounts]

the ones in starfleet would have been familiarized with procedures as part of their academy training. it was only an exchange Benzite as shown that had that issue

[@wrestlingconnoisseur]

@@toomanyaccounts Actually, other benzites have done the same thing in various Star Trek writings.

[@haitileblanc3075]

Martians 👽

[@nathanmerritt1581]

Have I not seen this already?

[@christopherluke9658]

Hello Temporal Investigations here. We have a few question.

[@robbcowan1936]

Correction: Mordock was the Benzite taking the Academy exam with Wesley Crusher; Mendon was the Benzite on the Enterprise in A Matter of Honor

[@jonathanroberts-bj7yl]

They are fish humanoids.

[@tonyah.960]

Geonosians

[@pearsegallagher9832]

algorithm comment

[@wilhelmhedin8845]

Martians.

[@christopherluke9658]

I thought they were from Hawaii?

[@dane.2294]

Good old Chaotic Bro

[@richx5064]

Martians first then Geonosians

[@johnsteiner3417]

This was one of the stupidest alien civilizations in Star Trek. Each person who finds a problem has to come up with a solution before telling anyone? Even if it's in a field totally outside their experience or training? They'd never make to the industrial age.

[@KristianChickey]

I think the video explains how this might have happened. You wouldn't want someone else taking credit for your work if your life depended on maintaining your social utility score

[@TheSuperRatt]

@@KristianChickey Such a tradition would no doubt stagnate them, so it's easy to see why they'd suddenly push for Federation membership all of a sudden. Though that's a little sus, isn't it? Instead of taking a hard look at themselves and repairing the problematic elements of their civilization, they simply latched onto another power. This promotes stagnancy, as now they'll never actually have to change.

[@andromidius]

However it might be something of a benefit - if Benzites strive for a specialist field from a young age they will become an authority on the topic by the time they are adults and may simply ignore or not recognise a problem outside of their speciality. This would make them very single minded individually, but also very adaptive and rapid to respond to issues as a whole. Imagine today's world if our leading experts were treated as authority on the things they know and we follow their solutions to problems without questioning it - it might be a massive boon to society as a whole, or a rapid collapse if a mistake is made by someone who is mistakenly viewed as an expert. Which would explain their prior philosophy on people who don't achieve greatness - they would literally be a threat to their society if allowed to continue.

[@johnsteiner3417]

@@KristianChickey A far less concern than what I outlined.