An ant was an insect animal native to Earth, known for being easily stepped on. (TOS novel: The Fearful Summons)
History and specifics
Ants could be easily scattered, but sometimes returned to rebuild their nests if the queen remained. (DS9 novel: The Mist)
Ants had a social structure similar to that of the Borg, with worker drone ants laboring on behalf of the queen ant, operating almost as a single entity. After Montgomery Scott rescued James T. Kirk from the Nexus, altering the timeline, Kirk studied the Borg and compared them to ants, and Borg cubes to ant hills. (Star Trek novel: Engines of Destiny)
The Arachnians resembled a cross between an ant and a tarantula. (TOS novel: Vulcan!)
Kirk once compared the miners who blew up the asteroids in the Ferrous-Asteroid Belt and carried away the pieces to "so many ants chopping away at a hill." (TOS comic: "The Trial of Captain Kirk")
One of the last surviving species on Zeltok, Zeltok ants were monstrously large. (TOS comic: "Vibrations in Time")
In 2269, following illusory contests with two Irapina on the planet Anomaly, Kirk had a brief dream that he flicked an ant away with a matchstick. In reality, an Arivne had augmented his strength such that Kirk knocked unconscious a much stronger, centaur-like Irapina by striking him with a tree trunk swung like a baseball bat. (TOS novel: Planet of Judgment)
Lifeforms, including ants, grew to huge proportions on Kwettir. In 2270, a landing party from the USS Enterprise ran into an ant's nest in a resident's yard. Several five-foot-long ants started biting at Kirk and Scott before they were rescued by local Kwettirians. (TOS comic: "To Swiftly Go...")
In fiction
In the 20th century Earth science fiction series The Adventures of Captain Proton, Mind-Sucking Ant Creatures were Human-sized telepaths with two legs and four arms. The ants serviced a city-sized queen ant and were capable of piloting warships. (VOY - Captain Proton: Defender of the Earth novella: The Adventures of Captain Proton, Chapter Two: Death of the Patrol)
Appendices
External links
- Ant article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Ant article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.