SPECIES
El-Aurian
Planet of origin:	El-Auria
Affiliation:	none
Warp capable:	unknown
Biology
Classification:	mammalian humanoid
Environmental requirements:	class M conditions
Typical lifespan:	several hundred years
Sexes:	male and female
Racial Sub-divisions: varied skin coloration

The El-Aurians are a humanoid civilization of "listeners" with extremely long lifespans. Most of them were assimilated by the Borg in 2265, the few survivors being scattered throughout the galaxy.

In 2293, a group of El-Aurian refugees were being transported by Federation ships when they were caught in the Nexus. They were reluctantly rescued by the USS Enterprise-B, although at the apparent cost of the life of James T. Kirk. (TNG episodes: "Q Who?", "Time's Arrow, Part I", "Time's Arrow, Part II"; DS9 episode: "Rivals"; ST movie, novelization & comic adaptation: Generations)

El-Aurians have the notable ability to sense changes in the time stream resulting from time travel. (TNG episodes: "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Time's Arrow, Part I", "Time's Arrow, Part II") In 2379, while on board the USS Enterprise-E, Guinan revealed to Captain Jean-Luc Picard that the El-Aurians were actually the first species to be assimilated by the Borg. As a result of Vulcan assimilation, the Collective uncovered a logical paradox in their philosophy of perfection: No perfect species can exist from one which was created imperfect. Thereafter, the Borg initiated a series of changes in the past by attempting to assimilate lifeforms from the time of inception. By assimilating the El-Aurians first, the Borg also assimilated the capability to remember each subsequent shift in time--so as to further isolate the exact point where life began. (TNG comic: "Alien Spotlight: Borg")

Notable El-AuriansEdit

• Guinan
• Martus Mazur
• Tolian Soran
• Yuriel Tyvan

External linksEdit

• El-Aurian article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.