The Danon were an alien race who, thousands of years ago, had once occupied half the Milky Way Galaxy and even visited Earth.
History and specifics[]
When the Enterprise visited their homeworld, Heartland, in 2269, they were a tragically dying race. Once proud, young, energetic, expansive, and aggressive, they had fought a war against the non-humanoid Torgas and had been driven by them back to their homeworld near the center of the galaxy. Facing the invasion of their last planet, they built a megacomputer, the "Great Machine" and injected the totality of their collected knowledge into it before they injected themselves and became part of it. They had programmed it for only a single purpose: to defend themselves and their planet against outside attacks. The Great machine succeeded as the Torgas never conquered Heartland. And seemed to have been forced to withdraw. By then, however, the Great Machine had taken control. The Danons devolved and became a primitive culture, worshiping the machine as a god, even making sacrifices to it. When a child was born, it too became part of the machine.
By 2269, however, there were no more children and had not for more than a hundred years. All that remained was a single village of some hundred mud-and-grass huts with an indigenous Danon population was four hundred fifty-seven.
The Danons were described as humanoid, barely a meter tall with smooth skin of a gentle copper color. Their heads contained two narrow black eyes, a pair of broad flat nostrils, and a thin lipless mouth. The skull, like the body, was hairless and a pair of slightly curved horns perhaps three inches long protruded from the back of the head. They had a tail that reached nearly to the ground and had a barbed tip at the end. Their satyr-like appearance was believed to have inspired the humans' picture of the Devil. (TOS novel: Devil World)
Known individuals[]
- Dazi
- The Danons inspiring the human idea of a devil mirrors the Megans and the Furies. The Furies' war against the Unclean also is reminiscent of the Danons' war against the Torgas, although the Unclean are described as Insectoids while the Torgas are described as slug-like.