Traits
Tellarites are a suidian-humanoid species. They have black pupils set in deep eye sockets and large snouts. Tellarites are very hairy; besides having beards and large bushy hair, they also have coarse pinkish-brown skin. Tellarites prefer temperatures slightly above human standards. In Star Trek: The Original Series they are portrayed as having three fingers, but in Star Trek: Enterprise, not only is their facial makeup updated, they also have five fingers. Overall the depiction in the original series is different from the Enterprise depiction, but this can easily be explained as simply due to the limitations of makeup in the 1960s. In TOS there was also one small inconsistency of the Tellarite hands. One Tellarite seen in the episode "The Lights of Zetar" had hands with 4 fingers and a thumb, while all other Tellarites seen throughout the entire series had hands with only 2 fingers and a thumb. There is still some debate among fans as to whether or not the alien seen in the episode was even a Tellarite at all, also some others may think that the anthropomorphic beast was half-human. Regardless, the producers of Star Trek: Enterprise probably simply forgot to give the Tellarites back their original hands.
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