Midgwis was a planet, the third planet in the Elcidar Beta system, located within the Organian Treaty Zone of the galaxy's Alpha or Beta Quadrants. It was the homeworld of the developing telepathic Midgwin civilization.
History and specifics
Surface features included jungles, forests, meadows, golden savannah, canyons, springs, caves, and desert. One region populated by Midgwin had a high ambient temperature. Foliage included grassland, flowering and fruit-bearing plants, thorny trees, barrel trees with red-colored bark, and lichen. It did have some fast predatory animal life. It had insects, but none that flew. Yarblis Geshkerroth described his world from orbit as having silken, purplish-colored oceans.
Federation scouts and Klingon researchers originally thought that the flaygrub and bargump animals were the world's dominant species, and that the humanoid Midgwin were not sapient. In the 2260s decade, the Klingon Empire petitioned the United Contact Council for the world to become a protectorate of the Empire.
In the year 2263, a Klingon scouting party visited the planet. Geshkerroth killed them by using his psychokinetic and telepathic abilities.
In 2266, doctors L'jian, Shorak, and Thetas Akunas from the Federation Xenological Institute established a small outpost to research the Midgwin culture in Bindigo Warren.
In 2268, the Federation starship USS Enterprise visited Migdwis, bringing additional scientists Mei Chu, Nomias Gzin, and Helen Gordon. Less than two days after the Enterprise departed, a Klingon research party arrived, led by Commander Khoaltar, who set up a separate research installation on the far side of the warren. The Federation team would remain for at least the next six months, and might stay for as long as three years.
Shortly afterward, the scientists and Klingons joined patriarch Kailin Arxoras in aiding plague victims in a nearby warren. (TOS novel: Ghost-Walker)
Lifeforms
Regions
- Bindigo Warren
- Walpuk Warren
Notable residents
- Kailin Arxoras
- Yarblis Geshkerroth
- Ynash
- Ka'th Ka'who