Rigelian or Rigellian was a designation given to various races and cultures typically native to the Rigel or Beta Rigel star systems.

Types of Rigelians/RigelliansEdit

It should be noticed that the number of 'L's in 'Rigelian' and 'Rigellian' is a indicator between the different races, as in the Decipher RPG module: Worlds.

There were at least six distinct species known as Rigelians or Rigellians, some with sub-species:

• The Rigellians and their warrior-caste subspecies, the Kaylar, primitive human-like races native to Rigel VII (TOS episode: "The Cage", EV comic: "Our Dearest Blood").
• The Rigelians who participated in negotiations for forming the Coalition of Planets in 2155 (ENT episodes: "United", "Affliction", "Demons", "Terra Prime").
• The Rigelians, a vulcanoid race that settled on Rigel IV and Rigel V (TOS novel: Mind Meld, TLE novel: Catalyst of Sorrows).
• The Rigellian, also called Chelons or Chelarians a sabre-toothed turtle-like species from Rigel III (TOS movie: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Decipher RPG module: Worlds).
• The Rigelians, a red-eyed and silver-skinned humanoid race (ST novel: Starfleet: Year One, STA novel: Oblivion).
• The Rigellians, a rodent-like race of wise, reclusive traders from Rigel IV (TOS novel: The Final Reflection, FASA RPG modules: The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge, The Orions: Book of Deep Knowledge)

BiologyEdit

This section covers biological details of Rigelians/Rigellians that cannot be definitely linked to any of the above races.

According to some sources, Rigelians had four or five sexes (ENT episode: "Cogenitor").

HistoryEdit

This section covers history and appearances of Rigelians/Rigellians that cannot be definitely linked to any of the above races.

Rigellian serpent-charmers were part of the circus of Vladimir Kossenko, which toured the Federation in 2118 SFC (c. 2192) as part of the Galactic Cultural Exchange project (ST reference: Spaceflight Chronology).

Circa 2264, the Tellarite criminal Muso ordered his people to collect a 10,000-credit bounty on a certain Rigellian, dead or alive (ST comic: "Alien Spotlight: Orions").

In 2359, a Rigellian ambassador was scheduled to visit the Federation embassy on Betazed with only forty-eight hours notice. The head of the embassy, Mark Roper, indicated that it was typical Rigellian paranoid behavior to make such late arrangements, and feared that the ambassador wouldn't show up anyway (TNG novel: Imzadi).

In 2369, a Rigelian freighter docked at Deep Space 9 before traveling through the Bajoran wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant. Flying a runabout, Odo shadowed the freighter to avoid Ah-kel, a Miradorn, while transporting Croden, a Rakhari fugitive, to the Gamma Quadrant (DS9 episode: "Vortex").

In 2370, there were Rigellians present for the trade negotiations at Deep Space 9. The Rigellian ambassador was injured when a bomb exploded in Pylon 4 (Lower Pylon 1) (DS9 novel: Betrayal).

A Human-like Rigellian

A Rigellian Kaylar warrior

A Rigelian from the 2150s

A pair of Rigellian Chelons

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