A turtle is a type of reptile with a hard outer shell as its primary feature. The Chelon race resembled large saber-toothed turtles.
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The inhabitants of Floe I resembled Earth turtles while on the exposed frozen surface of the planet. They lost the protective shell when they entered warmer climates. (TOS comic: "Ice Journey")
In Japanese mythology, the turtle represents longevity and good luck. (TNG short story: "Bedside Matters")
Cervantes Quinn noted that the Dulcinea handled like a turtle slogging through the mud while traveling through the wormhole to the Jinoteur system. (VAN - Declassified novella: The Stars Look Down)
Starfleet officers jokingly called the K'el Ri'anda class starship the turtle due to the ship's relatively poor performance and bloated appearance. (FASA RPG module: Klingon Ship Recognition Manual)
In the 2260s, an epidemic on Earth was fatal to turtles and several other wildlife species. In 2267, the USS Enterprise was assigned to retrieve some turtles from other planets in order to repopulate them on Earth. The crew also brought back members of bear, camel, chimpanzee, hippopotamus, leopard, kangaroo, parrot, platypus, rhinoceros, tiger, and zebra species. (TOS - A Book to Color comic: "Third story")
On Ceti Alpha V before the planet had been laid waste, Marla McGivers and Zuleika Walker encountered a giant turtle. (TOS novel: To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh)
On the planet Droplet, Melora Pazlar had wondered if a series of floating islands were some kind of giant turtles. (TTN novel: Over a Torrent Sea)
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- Turtle article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Turtle article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.