USS Mongoose - Science Department
Eclipse smiled slightly Deera ran and inclined hir head in greeting before looking back at the Captain.
"Navorn is a fluk, and while bioengineering new species can be done it is heavily restricted and regulated, with only the Chakats and Stellar foxtaurs being made legally in the last 200 some years since the end of the Gene wars. The transporters the Federation has in my universe are composed of two primary systems. The main transporter and body pattern buffer, and then the mind matrix generator. As was discovered by the systems creator when hir niece attempted to use the first transporter without the mind matrix generator the transporter alone could not handle the full complexity of a sentient beings mind, when the niece rematerialized all hir higher brain functions, all hir memories, where gone, shi was essentially a newborn in an adult body, and there was no way of recovering hir old memories. But it was discovered by accident later on that if the system has someones mind pattern a different body pattern can be substituted as long as there is enough organic mass available for the different form. This is actually what happened with Navorn, there is, or was, not sure if she got pulled here along with us, an elder ascended being, or deity, that likes to hang out with me and my ship, Navorn would actually either be dead or paralyzed from the waist down if she hadn't used to transporters to get hir out of a situation, but then the transproters body pattern buffer glitched, the deity had access to information about all the Stellar foxtaurs and using that information created Navorns hybrid body and put hir mind pattern in the new body in order to save hir life, shi is also the only hybrid there is."
"As to having anything similar to the Trill back home, not that has been encountered so far. We have not encountered any race that has a symbiotic relationship with another, and like I said the only human like race so far discovered is humans, all others bear more animalistic appearances, for example the Ciatians from the planet Cait, are a bipedal felinoid species, and the Rakshani from the planet Raksha are another bipedal felinoid species resembling the Earth Bengal tiger, it's also their world that the elder ascended being I mentioned originated from, and she is called by several names, Bast, Bastet, or Bastula, if you or any human crew might recognize any of those names."