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| - A group of Devidians were discovered by the crew of the USS Enterprise-D using a time portal to feed off of humans from the past. The Enterprise put a stop to this operation. (TNG episode: "Time's Arrow"; TOS novel: Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars) Though they frequently engaged in time-travel, their activities produced minor enough changes to the timeline that they warranted little attention from organizations such as the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations, especially since interfering in their activities often risked causing more problems than it solved. The Aegis, however, being a more advanced civilization, did investigate Devidian interference more often, sometimes even directly contacting Department of Temporal Investigations agents and telling them not to get involved. (DTI novel: Watching the Clock) In 2373, Quark commented that transphasic technology could be used to detect Devidians. (DS9 - Prophecy and Change short story: "... Loved I Not Honor More") In 2409, the Devidians also began feeding off the crews of certain Cardassian vessels as well. (STO mission: "Skirmish")
- Devidians were a vaguely humanoid, shapeshifting species native to Devidia II. Their physical characteristics composed of being between 2 and 3 meters in height; they had no apparent eyes but they possessed an orifice on what most humanoids would call their forehead, that resembled a mouth. They lived out of phase with most other lifeforms with a positive phase variance of 0.004. They also possessed the ability to travel through time. Devidians' only useful form of nourishment was Human neural energy. They acquired this energy by draining the subject of their neural energy, killing the subject. They preyed on Humans from 19th century San Francisco using the cholera epidemic at the time as a cover for their murders. In 2369, the USS Enterprise-D fired modified photon torpedoes on the Devidians' cavern habitat to prevent them from further incursions. (TNG: "Time's Arrow" , "Time's Arrow, Part II" ) A Devidian costume was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. The costume is a blue foam rubber body suit, with extremely wrinkled skin and a large cranial area, with the front of the cranial area indented. Although the costume has five fingers, the feet have six toes. [1] In Star Trek Online, set forty years after "Time's Arrow", the Devidians return in a five-part feature episode series, where they have been spotted in the re-established Klingon Neutral Zone. Player captains of the Federation (working for Section 31), the Klingon Empire (working for Klingon Intelligence), and the Romulan Republic (working for either or, depending on which faction the player decided to ally with) are sent to investigate. The Devidians' appearance has been changed to make them look more like ghosts, with them hovering above the ground and being partially transparent, and they are led by a leader referred to as the Shrouded Phantasm.
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