The Venturi

[Gorn]

( all I have at the moment is a description. Anyone able to add more material, please feel free to do so. Oceans and soil are dying along with alot of the populace due to unstable red giant (hey, the Science violation in the planet's orbit isn't nearly as bad as the shit JJ pulls!) They don't make ships of their own.)




One of the oldest, most gentle, and honored civilizations to have joined the Federation. The low mass Red Giant, Alpha Venturi major, is in the early stages of becoming a planetary nebula. The Federation is mounting an extended effort to relocate the Venturi; however, the majority refuse to leave due to religious convictions. The Venturi are a very old civilization, and their experience and technology was a boon to the Federation. However, they feel the Federation gave back very little, and should be reviving their dying planet; since most Venturi are convinced their god will not allow their extinction. They willingly suffer a high mortality rate among their newborn, and extremely high mortality rate among aged adults. Very few Venturi have ever left their planet for exploratory or merchant work in space, since they are generally uncomfortable with armed conflict; even against pirates.
A popular religious leader, Alshoff, however, has actually departed Venturi Prime, claiming to be on a pilgrimage of divine inspiration. It has caused some social chaos, which for the gentle Venturi, amounts to more secularism and departure from the doomed Venturi Prime.

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[rabid]

Wait aren't these guys from StarFleet Academy? I just happened to be playing the SNES Version, funny how I remembered.

Don't have many other details except they don't make their own ships. Perhaps they'd opt for one class of supercarrier that could carry a breeding pair of every species to their new colony, if they ever get around to leaving.

[Gorn]

Thanx to brickwall's thread; I mentioned "a dream within a dream"; that is, that the Venturi *might* well be an invention of Aex Rotherot, an instructor at Starfleet academy while Sulu was preparing to take command of Excelsior.

So I wondered if the Venturi were an actual species within the Federation, or merely created for the students at Starfleet Academy?

While it might be callous for Starfleet Academy to use an actual "true" case of a doomed civilization to instruct their students, it would indeed bring their students up to speed on current issues in the Federation pretty fast. Kirk used the admittedly historic "Balance of Terror" and "WoK" to instruct students as well.
The Venturi Entanglements were also used to teach students about the great galactic barrier at the edge of the galaxy - presumably alot closer to the Federation's domain within the α-quadrant than the "center" of the galaxy in ST V - a dream of Kirk's while camping, no doubt.

by the way, the game is highly recommended: www.gog.com/game/star_trek_starfleet_academy
Unfortunately, it is really not that good without the expansion, Chekov's Lost Missions, which seems unavailable! You will need to find a CD for sale, and install it - then you can mail the CD to the next board member who doesn't have access to one; because you don't need it to play!