Furies

An incredibly powerful, non-humanoid race from another galaxy. The Furies originally ruled in the Alpha Quadrant of the Milky Way Galaxy until they were defeated in a long war against the Unclean, an equally powerful, non-humanoid race. After their defeat, the Furies were driven out and exhiled from the Milky Way Galaxy, never to return. The Furies were banished to another galaxy where they supposedly remained for millenia, developing a way to travel beyond galaxies in order to return and reclaim their former galaxy.

In the Twenty-Second Century, the Furies breached the Milky Way Galaxy using a form of artificially generated inter-galactic wormhole travel. First contact with the Furies was made by General Kellen of the Klingon Empire shortly after their emergence. Captain James T. Kirk, commanding the USS Enterprise, was summoned by General Kellen to aid him in dealing with the Furies. Although efforts were made to establish friendly relations with Vergo Zennor of the Fury vessel, Rath, hostilities eventually escalated between the Furies and the Federation and Klingons. The Furies attacked and managed to severely cripple both the Enterprise and several Klingon vessels with their superior weapons. Although the Furies lacked the knowledge of shields, their vessels were composed of an extreamly durable hull that proved resistant to phasers, distruptors, and even photon torpedoes. Facing destruction, Captain Kirk managed to defeat the Furies by tearing the outer hull of their ship off and exposing the more vulnerable inner hull, using a tractor beam. With the destruction of the Rath, and the artificial wormhole, the terrifying threat of the Furies to the galaxy seemed to have ended.