Image:Ancient Gekli.png The Gekli, also known as Great Ones by the Hylasa, were large living cosmozoans existing entirely in the vacuum of space. In 2367, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D first discovered one creature orbiting the seventh planet of the previously uncharted Alpha Omicron system but killed accidentaly when minimal-powered phasers were used in self-defense against the creature's aggressiveness. The reason for the aggressiveness was discovered when scans by Lieutenant Commander Data soon revealed that this creature was about give birth. Then the crew of Enterprise assisting the birth, and the entity attached itself to the Enterprise thinking of it as its mother and draining its energy. Ultimately the creature was "weaned" and left the ship, and the newborn baby welcomed by oth