Ancient Humanoids



The ancient humanoids is the oldest species and the first humanoid species to evolve in the Milky Way Galaxy. They existed about some 4.5 billion years ago.

Civilisation
They explored the galaxy and found many planets but no lifeforms like themselves. Believing that the life span of a single species was not infinite they seedes the primordial environments of many planets with a DNA code that would speed up/direct the evolution of life on that planet towards a form similar to their own.

Holographic Message
Some of the fragments of DNA contained parts of a computer program designed to display a holographic message from the ancient humanoids. However not each species had the full computer program, they needed to join the parts to establish the holographic message.



Assembling Holographic Message
In the 2360s Professor Richard Galen discoverd the existence of the program and began collecting gentic samples. Around the same time also the Klingons and the Cardassians also learned about the existance of the program and sent expeditions of their own to assemble it, they each believed it contained a great technological advance.

After Professor Richard Galen's death Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D was able to convice the Klingons and Cardassians to cooperate to assemble the program.

The last part of the program was obtained on Vilmor II, and the message was played to the assembled members of each present party. The Klingons and Cardassians rejected the message due to their own prejudices, but the Romulan commander later expressed to Picard in confidence that perhaps their races were not as different as they had previously believed.