BOLIANS: Cultural Index 

Big, blue, beautiful, bald Bolians. Perfection.

Maybe a lot of Bolian females wore wigs so that they would feel more comfortable (or pure vanity) blending in with other Federation cultures.

Video suggestion: How about one on the Augments, the Eugenics War, and the impact on Federation society since that time?

Space smurfs ftw! I've always liked this species.

You forgot their cartilaginous tongue. I forget the episode but it's where Neelix tries to get Tuvok to try a fruit juice and Neelix says Chell liked it. Tuvok quips that Chell's tongue could survive even the strongest acid. Should I be worried that I can randomly quote a random Voyager episode... Nah :P

“I wouldn’t be a good technician if I didn’t know how to open a door.”

Booleans are hard to communicate with, as they only know "True" and "False".

Their poop can't be caustic AND acidic! Different ends of the pH scale. I'll get my coat.

The Bolians always have had a special place in my heart. Thank you for covering such an interesting species. I know the Kamanoans have a unique social structure and would love to hear more about them.

Fun fact 1: bollians are blue That's all I know

Your humor always gets me. "Their poop is acid" popping up on the bottom of the screen, completely blindsided. Thank you for the laugh. 6:56

I don't know why you included a clip of the Ambassador class starship... But I appreciate it.

I think that Bolians and Talaxians would get along well.

You are great at bringing enlightenment to the fans of Star Trek THANK AGAIN for your passion for knowledge about the things we fans love.

I love you, Rick! Your voice makes me quiver!

I'd like to know more about the androids from the TOS episode I Mudd. It's rather strange how the federation never thought to revisit at that a planet in pursuit of building more androids instead of trying to dismantle Data's brain.

The Obvious Evolution of the primitive SMURF.

That reminds me of a certain other species from a certain other universe. I had no idea Bolians also like their meat... Aged.

"I've got Boles of steel."

Well, actually I would like to see videos on both.

I like the Bolians, rather cool looking since so many Star Trek aliens look human but with ridges on the nose or forehead. That said, the Delvians of Farscape seem to be partly based on Bolians, the skin, social nature, meat reliance, etc. Not a rip-off but more a tribute.

Fascinating and most logical! 🖖

They only explicitly said that money doesn't exist on Earth, not in the UFP as a whole

Hey love your Cultural Index series. If your doing more Star Wars, could you please do the Yuuzhan Vong next? Their my all time favorite aliens and I'd be so happy if you gave them a look. Thank you keep up the great work!

I have a suggestion on a video, can you go over the hybrid species in sci-fi? Ex.(human-Klingon or human-Vulcan)

Could you do a Cultural Index on the Caitians and Ferasans?

Rick, Great job on the Bolians, who are a more interesting species than I suspected. As for the next video, I vote for the Kaminoans

It would be pretty cool if you would do some Indexes on the various species from Andromeda

Thank you, don't get much of the history of Star Trek's universe beings from the television shows and movies.

Now we know what planet Megamind's people originally came from. :)

On behalf of the Romulan Star Empire, no comment.

Many new machines on IX.

How about a video on Deltans?

Great video! You should do the Hur'q sometime in the future.

Awesome

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Good video. Fascinating. Go for Star Wars! 👍😏

The Bolian web, a strategy wherein several Bolians trap you in a web of inane conversation.

6:37 So that’s why Chell wanted to take over Neelix’s kitchen; rotting food. I’m in no way surprised.

Sexual Side-effects, damn. There goes my hope of sleeping with every blue alien race.

PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON BETAZOIDS!!!

I searched your channel for Taelons and received this video as a result. However, I can't find the word Taelons in the description. Have you done a video on the Taelons from Earth: Final Conflict? Also, I would suggest that you include references in your videos to the information you give.

I always liked them... they are the true eccentrics of Trek

There are so many species in star trek that I wish they would give just a little more attention. Telarites, Andorians, Orions, Axanar, Deltans, as well as Bolians. Enterprise gave a touch more Andorians, and Telarites, but we got more Xindi than either.

Rick baby, have... have you been at the Romulan ale, with that intro? I know this is a tough time, A) I hope you're not overdoing it, B) please share, C) if you share I'll share some of my Kannabian Pleasure Weed, which can pair _nicely_ with the right exoboozonics.

I wonder if u got a video detailing all the Ships and Space Stations in the Star Trek Franchise. And i don't mean just the federation ships but every last type of the other Alien species out there

I'd like to know more on the kaminoans, they are the ones who created the clone army for the clone wars after all?

For some reason I assumed that Bolians were a sentient humanoid plant-derivative species. I remember hearing Nog once refer to a Bolian 'budding', and he seemed to imply it in a context we would equate with 'pregnancy'.

every time u do star wars makes me not want to come back lol.

A bolian main character would be cool to have. Though I hope the actor doesn't mind the makeup time.

Aren’t our fluids also corrosive?

Not really a comment about this particular post, because I like them all. However, I would like to ask you, if you haven't, to do the Metrons from arena, if you have tell me where to find that post.

I do hope in the near future you'll do a betazoid cultural index on them but I do understand that there's some up & down issues in there canon lore from what I remember renumbering reading and the fact that in main canon there's not to much to work with I believe so I'm not saying there's not nothing to work with I don't know maybe I'm wrong about that I've been studying the betazoids and I don't get a lot of information on them maybe in the future of star trek picard or discovery we'll could get more information on them more likely star trek picard in my opinion for all we know the betazoids will possibly get a big scene in discovery or something we never ever seen coming they do like making a big look at me scene after all alexana tori is normal for betazoids well maybe even more centric for them at all her type of personality may most likely Normal for betazoids but even betazoids have strong personality types like humans when it comes to variety I suppose if anything having a strong personality even telepathic abilities are weak in this culture of there's strong personality is probably very important I mean came on a telepathic society ya need to have a strong backbone for that

I was literally thinking the other day about what we knew about the bolians

didn't the only bolian with hair turn out to be an alien imposter and not a bolian at all?

do you think you will do any Xcom aliens?

can Dorium link the Doctor Who universe, to Star Trek....please? pretty please?

I only recognized them after I played Elite Force 1. Cell was an interesting but well written character.

How about some cultural indexes on the species of 'The Orville'.

Caminoans please. Also blue is my favorite

*perhaps a bit more on Bothan spies and that false rumor of their incredible pain tolerance and the outrageous life insurance premiums they have to pay for even the most basic policies* *and then there's the problematic awkwardness of meeting others socially on first dates in bars and those greedy autograph collectors...and that depressing realization that when anyone says "See you later" they're not being honest with you*

Quarren! Kaminoans have been covered fairly extensively due to their association with the Clones/Cloning Process/Sifo Dias/etc.

Heres a tidbit of beta content for you. In the book series "The Genesis Wave" Bolians were shown to be deeply religious and practiced ritualistic suicide if their lives were in imminent peril, preferring death on their own terms preferable to death by the Genesis Wave.

Picard sees a bald head and that is a chap we can trust

It's interesting that sexual relations came up in this one. That should be a discussion when doing these as there are many hybrids seen in the show. Also if you want to try 'american pieing' a bolian, just make a blueberry pie with some tobasco sauce tossed in. If you try it, you'll only have yourself to blame.

The only Bolian with hair that we saw turned out to be a shape-shifting imposter, so I’d suggest all Bolians are bald and that one just got it wrong.

Thry remind me of the Blue Man Group!

I could be wrong, but the image of the Bolian woman with hair was half human, half Bolian. It's from the TNG episode where Picard was in a prison cell with three others; one was bestial and couldn't eat the food they were given - and was threatening to eat Picard and the others.

Do Principality of Zeon!

The food thing just makes sense, if your biology lets your eat more rotten meat then your culture is likely to be ok with rotting meat...I imagine it adds huge amounts of flavors if you don't have psychological or physiological reasons to be revolted.

I wonder if the fact that they tend to be portly (by human standards) was a deliberate choice on the part of the show runners?

The Bolian emblem looks (I’m sure very coincidentally) very much like the Defiant.

but if their planet is the ninth, wouldn't it be more logical if it's Boliaix? if Boliax it's the tenth right? Anyway, good vid! Always wondering about them when watching DS9 and their cannon fodder status.

This has never made sense to me, how can the billing home world be the ninth planet in the system and still have liquid water, that means that all the planets would have to be supper close to each other, witch would mean that they would just run in to each other. They could have a whole bunch of greenhouse gasses in their atmosphere but then they couldn’t breath m class air Does anyone nor how this could be possible?

Since a blue star emits more UV radiation than the Sun, it would make sense for them to have darker pigmentation but no reason for it to be blue (other than green was already taken by Orions ;).

How's 'bout one on the Benzites?

What about Bolian, Hranok Zar, at Wolf 359. He is a lieutenant on the Saratoga. With the warp core about to breach, the Bolian gets Sisko and Jake to the escape pod. "Ensign. Take the boy," the Bolian says. A bit of a Bolian Data, more Vulcan than the captain, but gets the job done. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Saratoga_(NCC-31911)_personnel The Saratoga's Bolian tactical officer The tactical officer, a Bolian male lieutenant, was one of only two bridge officers to survive the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2366. He was later forced to physically drag Benjamin Sisko away from the body of his deceased wife[Jennifer] to safety. (DS9: "Emissary") The tactical officer was played by Stephen Davies. The Michael Jan Friedman novel Saratoga gives the name of this officer as Zar, although the novelization of "Emissary", as well as the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time, refer to him as Hranok. The eBook Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment gives his full name as Hranok Zar.

I imagine a Bolian Necromorph where the cranial ridge would split open and act like a mouth.

Soundbug on 0:44

Why when you said BOLIANS! did I hear "MOLEY, MOLEY, MOLEY!" :)

You for got about the Bolians mortal enemy the Manroepia

can you do Cultural Index of Avatar's Na'vi please

please do species 8472 next

IRL blue blood is copper based. (horse shoe crabs have blue blood) Copper blood is superior to iron blood as it holds more oxygen. It is however, harder to replace if lost, as copper is a much rarer metal on earth than ion. Making access to coper for blood a limiting factor for growth, healing and population size. Hence why the inferor iron blood animals won out over coper based blood.

6:00 how would you know that

Quarrens for sure

BLUE

I wanted to see more Bolians are trek TV shows. They are also known for their tomato soup.

Kamino for the win and Bolians probably have stockpiles of Romulan Ale.

The only thing about these people I knew from before is that you don't want to share a toilet with them

PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON BETAZOIDS!!!!!

Bolians are what happens when an Andorian has a drunken love trist with a pakled

The cloners please

Quarian

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Know what bolus means? And they live on one.

I'm so mad they called it as "BoliaX" to include the roman "IX" instead of "Bol-IX"

Not all Bolians are bald or necessarily blue-skinned. The female cadet, Mitena Haro, in the Star Trek TNG episode "Allegiance", was closer to grey-skinned with an ever slight tinge of blue, and lots of greyish hair. Yes, she was not actually Bolian, but her appearance would have been based on an actual Bolian in order to try to convince Picard that she was a real Bolian. If Earthans, Klingons, and Andorians come in various shades, it stands to reason that Bolians do too. Even Orions have yellow and orange-skinned people, in addition to the majority green-skinned.

Voyager had a juvinile habit of subtly throwing shade on bolian bathroom habits and the mass quantities they produced therein. How robust is bolian plumbing, anyways?

I feel like I've seen more Bolians on screen than Andorians