Beta Promethean

The Beta Promethean people come from the Beta Promethean system. They are short and pear shaped with four tentacle legs and two arms. As a people the are largely isolationist and have business ethics much like the Ferengi. They control all three planets in their system (Beta Prometheus 1, Beta Prometheus 2 and Beta Prometheus 3). They trade large amounts of dilithium with other species.

Around 2244 they were invited to join the United Federation of Planets, but they declined.

In 2254, a small group of Beta Promethean pirates kidnapped eleven officers from the USS Excelsior (NCC-2000). Klingon interference with the local political process had created a large amount of ant-Federation rhetoric.