#alfa 177 canine

[why-its-kai]

an alien!!!!

[creature-competition]

Creature Competition: Round 2A

[zoozoocala]

shoutout to saavik in the one with the whales for single handedly making sure starfleet actually built the enterprise A while the bridge crew were time traveling. like earth was dealing with that probe, no way was the construction of that ship top priority without external pressure. everyone say thank you saavik

[davidcartoon]

Alfa 177 Canine from Star Trek - ink and markers.

For February, I’ll be taking the first request to be commented on various social medias, so through me an idea!

[kingofdoma]

...

so ep 8 of strange new worlds inspired me to write a ficlet (is that the term? this is my first time doing this)

it’s the first thing i’ve written to completion in ages, so be kind

call it “a final gift” i guess?

yeah.

all below the cut.

"Noonien-Singh to M'Benga! I have a possible infectious fauna in my quarters! Report here immediately!"

The doctor, half in reverie as he was filling out the toughest report he had ever had to complete, snapped out of his staring contest with a console and answered his comm. "La'an? What's going on?"

"I reported back to my quarters after the... incident, and when I returned there, there was a creature in there. I sealed it within before it could escape. I need you here to establish proper quarantine and run a limited baryon sweep if necessary."

"A baryon sweep? I don't know if such procedures are necessary, but... in any event, I'm on my way. M'Benga out." A smile flickered across his face. Could it be...?

When M'Benga arrived at La'an's quarters, he saw her rigid and stern, phaser trained on her quarter's door, as if the "fauna" could leap through the entrance at will, two other security officers flanking her. "Doctor?" she said, barely looking away. "Good. You're here. I need you to-"

"I think I know exactly what I need to do," M'Benga said, cutting her off slightly. "Tell me, have you done a scan of the creature yet?"

"No," she replied, absolutely not showing any embarrassment whatsoever, and don't you dare say otherwise. "That's what I contacted you for. In situations like this, I shoot things, or defer to different pools of knowledge. For this thing's sake, I went with the latter."

"Right. One moment." M'Benga went to the panel next to the door and initiated the in-room sensors. It only took him a few seconds to interpret the scans and start chuckling to himself, then a moment more for it to turn into full-blown laughter.

"Doctor? What... what's going on?" La'an inquired. "What's so funny?"

The doctor ended his laughter with a sigh. "You can dismiss your men. There's no danger here."

The security chief, again, NOT looking embarrassed, can't stress that enough, holstered her phaser and curtly nodded to her officers, who exchanged puzzled looks as they left. La'an leaned in and spoke in low tones. "You're absolutely sure it's not a threat?"

M'Benga smirked, and hit the door control, opening the quarters and allowing the small, brown furred creature out of the room, whereupon it immediately started yipping and putting its forepaws on La'an's leg. M'Benga took the officer's frozen gaze as a sign that she did not know how to respond, and picked up the creature.

"Do they not have dogs where you come from?" asked M'Benga.

"Not like that," La'an replied, secretly thankful to be able to focus on literally anything else. "I'm used to dogs being much bigger and much more aggressive. Besides, even if it appeared to be harmless, there are creatures that can change shape or temperament at a moment's notice. There are chameloid predators from the Imani cluster, not to mention the Alfa-177 canines are bloodthirsty half the time-"

"It's a mutt," he said. "Likely a bichon frise-cocker spaniel mix. That was..." He paused. "Can we take this inside?"

"Please," La'an agreed, and entered her (spartanly adorned) living space, closing the door behind her. "So, fine," she said, sitting across from M'Benga on her bed. "It's a dog. What is it doing here? Does it have to do with our missing time?"

The doctor smiled as he balked. "I'm still writing my report. Basically, we all became characters from a fantasy book. Most people's characters... did not match their usual personality. The captain was a sniveling chamberlain, for instance."

"Really?" La'an smirked. "I'd have loved to have seen that. What was Una, a flighty princess?"

"She was an archer of the forest... YOU were the princess."

"... what?" she replied flatly. "That's... that's ghastly. Horrible low cut dress, I assume? Terrible hair?"

M'Benga cleared his throat. "I... will show you the illustration later. You can judge for yourself. But the important thing is, that princess had a dog. THIS dog. When things returned to normal, I thought this little lady would disappear with the rest of the changes, but it appears... she did not. Which means that this is a gift from my daughter... to you."

"To me? I didn't even know your daughter... wait, your daughter?"

"That will be in my report as well," he replied wistfully. "Rukiya. She had cygnokemia. I was trying to give her more time by putting her pattern in the medical transporter buffer, but... she was running out of time. So the entity that lived inside the nebula literally made her dreams come true. Even to the point of letting her see the stars."

"Wait. You had an unauthorized pattern in the buffer? Presumably since we left drydock? That is a massive breach of protocol! You could face court martial!"

"... it will be in my report," he restated grimly. "I've... come to peace with that. But the important thing, right now, is this." He held up the dog to be eye level with La'an. "This is the princess' beloved companion. She called her Runa. And right now, she's yours. We can drop her off at McNair Starbase when we get there, but... that is up to you."

It finally dawned on La'an that M'Benga was offering the dog to her, and reluctantly took the beast into her hands. It sniffed and flicked out its tongue at her as it wiggled in her grasp. "We... we can decide that when we get to McNair. ... do we have a raw meat tape for the food synthesizer?"

M'Benga grinned again. "I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, I should get back to incriminating myself. My count is three major offenses so far, but I'm only a third of the way through things. I'm sure it will go up from there."

Slapping his legs, M'Benga stood up, and started for the door, but before he left, he turned and said, "You know, when Rukiya was old enough to know what gifts were, she got myself, my wife, and herself teddy bears, all with different faces and decorations, and told us all to sleep with them every night. I went with it at the time, but I never understood why she did it. But now... I sleep with all three of those bears every night. It helps me... not feel so alone. My daughter's gifts may not have made sense at first, but they were always excellent.

"You may want to cherish this one."

Once she was alone, La'an held the dog a moment longer, then placed it on the ground. Runa immediately ran around for a second, jumped back onto the bed, and snuggled in next to the chief's thigh.

La'an sighed to herself. Reaching for a nearby console as best she could without unseating her new companion, she said with resignation, "Computer... bring up any available files on canine care. Everything you've got. I'm going to need it..."

[thegayjoker]

Alfa 177 canine :)

HI ALEX

[startrekaliens]

Alfa 177 Canine (aka Unicorn Dog), TOS 1x05 “The Enemy Within”

[buttspocks]

okay y'all know the Alfa 177 canine from TOS: The Enemy Within

apparently it's available as a pet in star trek online so i googled it and

LOOK HOW THEY'VE MASSACRED MY BOY

[startrekpride]

Lesbian Unicorn Dogs (Alfa 117 canines) icons for anon!

Like or reblog if saved :)

[trek-tracks]

you pays your money, and you takes your chances

[starstrekkin77]

Psychic: reads my mind

My mind:

Psychic: what the fuck

[timbermirracle]

Why can't I add a insect-like feelers too? Horn only? Really? I'm upset with PT Tools.

Anyway here is... me as a Unicorn puppy!!!

I think I've decided on my Hallowe’en costume 

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[creature-competition]

Creature Competition: Round 1B

[bohemian-rhapsody-in-blue]

Star Trek for the fandom ask owo

Absolutely! Thank you so much for the ask! (And sorry I didn't see it in my askbox until, like, three days later 😅) I'll be answering for TOS and AOS, as those are the series I'm most familiar with.

Blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): My two favorite Star Trek characters are Spock and Chekov, but I'm using Chekov as an answer for a later question, so we shall go with Spock. My boy!!! My half-Vulcan half-human boy!!! My beautiful, intelligent, sarcastic, logical, conflicted, "I am in control of my emotions" boy—neither fully at home with humans or Vulcans, but truly belonging to the Enterprise crew in such an integral, inextricable way that it just wouldn't be the same found family without him!!! I just love this boy. And as this post notes, he is, in fact, the original Blorbo from my shows!

Skrunkly (my baby, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Now THIS would be Chekov, especially AOS Chekov. This sweet Russian whizkid with his adorable accent and his head full of curls and his enthusiasm that "I can do zat!" I'm obsessed with him. He deserves so many hugs. He also counts as a Blorbo, though, because I think about him a lot—especially when I was younger and had skipped several grades, so I was consistently the youngest person in my classes, making it hard to relate to my classmates or make friends. In fact, this very much inspired one of the first fanfics I ever wrote and finished, Shining Star.

Fun fact: AOS Chekov was one of my first and strongest fictional crushes, when I was about 11-12. I desperately wanted to date him and thought he'd be the sweetest boyfriend ever. Even though he was relatively young and cute in comparison to the rest of the Enterprise crew, though, I knew he'd be way out of my league/acceptable age range in real life, as he was 17 in the first movie. It kind of blows my mind, then, that I'm now older than him! The years really do start coming and they don't stop coming.

Scrimblo Bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): I feel like Sulu's pretty underrated. I love him in either continuity, though—what's not to love about a simultaneously funny and badass guy who loves plants so much and has SWISHY SWASHY SWORDS? I don't know why he's so underrated!

I also think the casting of John Cho as Spike in the live-action Cowboy Bebop has caused a resurgence in my Sulu appreciation. I love Cho as Spike, but looking at pictures of Sulu reminds me why I like him in the first place! 11 year old me watching Star Trek 🤝 18-year-old me watching live-action Cowboy Bebop: loving (and being very attracted to) John Cho.

Glup Shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won't shut up about it for a week): I don't know if this even really counts as a "character," but the Alfa 177 canine from TOS (The Enemy Within, I believe)—AKA the unicorn dog. They literally just. They stuck a horn and antennae on a dog's head and called it an alien species and we all just accepted it. I'm obsessed with this dog. I love it. I want to see a whole spin-off series just about the dog alive and well and having adventures.

You can't go wrong with the uni-dog.

Poor Little Meow Meow ("problematic," unpopular, controversial, or otherwise pathetic fave): *sigh...* Khan from the AOS movies, which I say only because I had a massive Benedict Cumberbatch phase from ages 11-13. Do I like Khan as a character? No. Would my seventh-grade self swoon whenever she saw him onscreen? Unfortunately, yes—solely because he was Cumberbatch, and that was enough.

Horse Plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Listen. L I S T E N. I wouldn't really torment Kirk for fun. I love my boy Jimothy, and I don't want to see him suffer. (He's been through enough!) What I would do is, I would put him in a slightly compromising situation. Ever-so-slightly. Just compromising enough that it would cause him to rip his shirt. That's all. That's the entirety of the horse plinko torment I would perform. I just want to see one of the famous Kirk Shirt Rips.

Eeby Deeby (character I would send to superhell): I don't actually hate that many characters on Star Trek—plus I have too many happy memories and positive emotions associated with the series/movies to really hate anyone on them. But if I had to send anyone to superhell, I'd pick Sarek. That's what he gets for his A+ parenting skills.

[Blorbo Asks]

[pretzelogic1]

I want the Alfa 177 canine to appear in new Star Trek. No updated special effects just a dog in a fur suit.

[deadpanwalking]

Three Unicorn Dog Moon

My sense of betrayal and disappointment when a thorough Google search yielded no results for this ingenious design concept? Palpable!