Cosmozoans, the name used to describe the different types of interstellar-dwelling species, that live most of their lives in the vacuum of space. They can be both sentient species as well as non-sentient animals or plants. (TTN novel: Orion's Hounds)

Known species

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• Argus IV species, a planet-sized species propelled by solar sails. (TOS comic: "It's a Living")
• Several species were found by the USS Intrepid in the 23rd century in its survey of the Scorpius-Centaurus Association. The starship was ultimately destroyed by an extradimensional space amoeba. (TTN novel: Orion's Hounds, TOS episode: "The Immunity Syndrome")
• Jawanda, paper thin, continent-wide entities residing in intergalactic space. (TAS - Log Eight novelization: The Eye of the Beholder)
• "Junior" was the unofficial name for the lifeform the USS Enterprise-D encountered en-route to Doctor Leah Brahms' scheduled stop at the Guemica outpost. The entity had been born motherless in the Alpha Omicron system in 2367 and mistook the energy signature of the Galaxy-class starship as a feeding source. (TNG episode: "Galaxy's Child")
• Unknown species around the Orion Association. (TTN novel: Orion's Hounds)
• Unknown species around the Taurus Dark Cloud. (TTN novel: Orion's Hounds)
• Several species and animals, including the Star-jellies, were found in the Gum Nebula's Vela Association. (TTN novel: Orion's Hounds)
• NGC 6281, a star cluster. (TNG novel: Greater Than the Sum)
• Choraii, living starships, who tame humans. (TNG novel: The Children of Hamlin)
• Great Bird of the Galaxy, a flaming bird, which hatches inside planets, then destroys them, when she is reborn from them. (NF novel: End Game)
• Another kind of Great Bird of the Galaxy, a birdlike energy-creature with 3 eyes and four wings, which hatches inside a special class of suns, the Red flares, which become blue for the time, when the animals energy-pattern sleeps in them. After awaking, the bird travels to some global clusters outside the Milky Way Galaxy. (TNG - Ill Wind comic: "Part Four")
• Telepathic ship-devouring entity. (VOY episode: "Bliss")
• Gormaganders, also known as space whales (DSC episode: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")

Appendices

Background information

The term "cosmozoan" first appeared in licensed Trek media when Christopher L. Bennett used it in the 2005 novel Orion's Hounds before seeing canonical use for the gormagander in the 2021 episode "That Hope Is You, Part 2".

External link

• Cosmozoan article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.