Lilliputian

Lilliputians were a group of fictional characters. They were human natives of the island Lilliput who were less than six inches tall.

They were invented by 18th century writer Jonathan Swift for his novel Gulliver's Travels. In the novel, Lemuel Gulliver was attacked by an army of Lilliputians and tied to a sled. 

History
In 2266, an experience similar to that of Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput being tied to a sled by tiny ropes by Lilliputians was had by James T. Kirk on the planet Kujal. Tiny General Kwy led an arial assault of a dozen aircraft which fired bolas that whipped around Kirk and dragged him to the ground. He was gassed and hoisted by cranes onto a wheeled cart. 

In 2369, Kirk referred to the miniature Terratin city as a Lilliputian city in his official log. The human colony population had been shrunk by spiroid epsilon waves. 

In the 2340s on Rampart, a young girl named Amoret discovered a page from Part 1 of Gulliver’s Travels. It thrilled her with its drawing of Lemuel Gulliver and description of Lilliput and Lilliputians, stories which were contraband on Rampart. 

In 2366, Deanna Troi had a waking dream in which Gulliver appeared at the last moment and heroically saved Jean-Luc Picard, William T. Riker, Data, Troi and a group of Dissenters from being killed on the planet Rampart. Gulliver appeared 100 feet tall and had tiny ropes hanging off his arms and legs, as if he’d just freed himself from the Lilliputians. 

Also in 2366, faced with the threat of the sentient nannites, William T. Riker kept thinking about Lemuel Gulliver and being “overpowered by Lilliputians.”

In 2376, during a Captain Proton adventure, Tom Paris beamed into a room that had tiny chairs and tables which reminded him of Gulliver and the Lilliputians. 

In 2376, Picard was reminded of Lilliputians and Gulliver when he approached the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) via a shuttlecraft and saw the thousands of Elaysians swarming over the ship. 

In 2379, Zak Kebron was attacked by guardsmen of the House of Fhermus that seemed to MacKenzie Calhoun like Lilliputians attacking Gulliver.