Snake
Snakes were a group of reptiles which lacked limbs. Snakes were sometimes referred to informally as serpents. Some snakes were venomous.

On Earth, there was an ancient African myth about a giant serpent called the night beast. ()

The 22nd century Earth Starfleet survival training course involved living on recycled sweat and snake meat. ()

In the mid-22nd century, Hoshi Sato and two other teachers from Amazon University took a hydro-skimmer to visit a tributary of the Amazon River. Sato saw sloths, pink dolphins, and many kinds of snakes there, which frightened her a lot. ()

While being interrogated by Dolim, a Xindi-Reptilian, who proclaimed his cold-blooded superiority, Jonathan Archer attempted to provoke him by recalling the downfall of reptilian rule on Earth, and the rise of the mammals. Archer further explained that not all reptiles died out, and that some evolved into snakes, alligators and turtles. ()

While discussing a plan to deceive a Gorn destroyer in 2259, Captain Christopher Pike mentioned the snake as an animal that plays dead in response to being hunted. ()

A snake that would fall down on a hapless victim when a doorbell was pulled was part of the Sherlock Holmes holographic story that Data and Geordi La Forge ran in 2365. ()

When Commander Riker was suffering from acute lack of REM sleep in 2367, he hallucinated that there were snakes underneath his blanket. ()

In 2370, the D'Arsay archive turned parts of a photon torpedo on  into living snakes. ()

A green and white striped snake was native to the planet Bajor. Vedek Bareil saw one of these snakes during an Orb experience in 2370. ()

A yellow snake species was also native to the planet Soukara. Jadzia Dax and Worf encountered one of them during their mission on Soukara. ()

Trakor's Third Prophecy made reference to vipers, indicating the existence of snakes on Bajor. ()

Types of snakes and serpents

Aldebaran serpent
Anaconda
Arboreal needle snake
Draxxan cloud viper
Filian python
Fire snake
Ophidian
Serpent of Xol
Serpent worm
Rattlesnake
Spitting cobra
Sun viper
Sur-snake
Wentlian condor snake

Sentient snake-like species
Kukulkan's species
Selay
U'tani

See also
Dragon
Gagh
Nechani nesset
Kos'Karii
Serpent's Ridge
Snake oil salesman

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