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The Minotaur was a monster from the Greek mythology of the planet Earth. In the legends, it had the head of a bull, but the body of a man.

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In the mythological story Theseus and the Minotaur, Theseus underwent a hero's quest to travel through the maze and subdue the Minotaur. (TOS novel: Preserver, TNG novel: Do Comets Dream?)

Dante Alighieri adapted the character for his Divine Comedy poem Inferno.

In 2286, Lieutenant Castille recreated Inferno through mass illusions aboard the USS Enterprise-A. The bridge crew encountered the Minotaur in the seventh circle of Hell. Spock tried to subdue it with a Vulcan nerve pinch. When that proved ineffective, James T. Kirk had the group run evasively and lead the Minotaur directly in the line of fire of a group of armed Centaurs, who struck it with numerous arrows. The officers quickly fled out of its reach across the Philegethon river. (TOS - Who Killed Captain Kirk? comic: "Hell in a Handbasket")

In the 2360s, Rampartian rebels used "Minotaur" as one of their passwords on the planet Rampart. Brainwashing preventing ordinary citizens from thinking about mythological topics. (TNG novel: Gulliver's Fugitives)

In 2361, Zak Kebron disguised himself as a statue to spy on and arrest Erril G'Doh during a suspected act of treason. The statue's headpiece resembled the Minotaur's head. (NF - No Limits short story: "Waiting for G'Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People")

In the 2370s, Theseus and the Minotaur was adapted as a holodeck program aboard the USS Enterprise-D. Simon Tarses demonstrated the program to Kio sar-Bensu and Tormod Engvig in 2371, but retreated when they actually came across the huge creature. (TNG novel: Do Comets Dream?)

In 2371, Harry Kim was reminded of the Minotaur when he saw a dead Akerian in body armor, its head adorned with a horned helmet. (VOY novel: The Murdered Sun)

When Benjamin Sisko encountered the Glant in the year 2386, he noted that one of them resembled the Minotaur. (DS9 novel: Original Sin)

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