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The title "civilization" redirects to this article. You may be looking for the article about ENT episode: "Civilization".

The various forms of sentient lifeforms in the universe exist in (and evolve from) various civilizations, species, races and cultures.

Lists of races and cultures[]

By location[]

By form[]

  • humanoid races and cultures
  • non-humanoid races and cultures

Other[]


The exact number of races and cultures in the Milky Way Galaxy or even the Alpha and Beta Quadrant was not known.In 2155 Jonathan Archer estimated that :"At warp 2, only a handful of inhabited planets were within a year's travel from Earth. But at warp 5, that number increases to ten thousand planets" and in 2257 Mister Saru stated that the Universal translator was able to translate over a thousand languages and estimated there were Hundreds of thousands of life-forms "out there". By 2368 Mister Data stated he had studied four thousand different religious and philosophical systems and had met 1,754 non-Human races.
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