BETAZOIDS: Cultural Index
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2021
- This Star Trek species has been a member of the United Federation of Planets for a long time! Or has it? The lore is not clear. But they are still an interesting culture to look and their telepathy and empathy have created a very forgiving society.
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Fun fact: The Sacred Chalice of Rixx is actually a writers' in-joke about Rick Berman's huge coffee mug.
EWWWW!!! Then it had *mold* in it!
Where did you hear that?!
@@irregularassassin6380 It's in a footnote in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.
Wow, an actual fun fact.
The Sacred Chalice of Rixx is the dress that held Majel Barret-Rodenberry.
_Gasp_ “Jean-Luc!!!!! Such naughty thoughts!”
I wanna no more about Mr homm race
"Counselor Troi. An Empath, who can always tell, when someone's lying.. except when she can't." ~ Screen Junkies 2017
The more Human-like the easier it is for her to identify, however the more alien mind, the harder. Then there are the races that naturally can't be read.
@@tonywhite9873 yeah, and don't forget, even Lwaxana, a full Betaziod, couldn't read everyone - Ferengi for example
@@momokochama1844 I think, that's because Ferengi brains are far more complex then (for example) a human brain. I remember a episode, where the Enterprise got some amphibius fish people (don't know their species name anymore) who claimed to be ambassadors. When Lwaxana met them in the transporter room, she could immediatly read their thoughts and told Picard, that those guys weren't ambassadors but terrorists
So is Lt. Barclay a non-human species? Even before he had his IQ increased by an alien probe Troy had a terrible time reading him even when his feelings were visibly obvious. Example, when Barclay was getting over his holodeck addiction Troy gives him a 'relaxing' backrub and somehow doesn't read how horny and uncomfortable it made him because he was using her image as his holodeck fantasy girl.
@@tylerryan713 She can't read minds just emotional intent, she could tell that Barclay might have feeling about her but it was just the basic background noise she gets now and again. Strong sexy woman get noticed by others is everyday thing, unless strongly directed at her, she will not really pay attention to it.
Betazoid is 100% in the federation. The dominion occupied it during the war while being very careful to space neutral species even if they were ufp friendly
Which was something i thought of briefly, if the founders, jem h'dar, or those moddle manegment guys were susceptible to telepathy.
Posted something similiar before seeing this but i wouldnt be 100% sure about this as of yet maybe they have a NATOesque relation and are bound by treaty to enter a defensive war on the UFP's side. That said the absence of a betazoid observer at the signing of the peace treaty argues against that.
I am sure that Lwaxana Troi was called Federation ambassador on more than one occasion.
Changelings aren't real, the Dominion War didn't happen! Worf 359 was an inside job.
@@TonyFromChicago_. But the Dominion didn't have anything to do with Wolf 359! Except for both of them pissing off Ben Sisko
PICARD: My superintendent was a Betazoid -- a full telepath. When he called you into his office, he didn't have to ask what you'd done.
RIKER: (very curious) You got called into the superintendent's office? That sounds like a story I'd like to hear.
Betazoids, when you need a psychic but you don't want a Vulcan's sense of superiority or uptight nature
And when a contact telepath is undesirable.
What's a Kevin?
Vulcans are also known as Alphazoids. Like Betazoids, but more Chad.
Or when your wish to see the bridemaids' tiddies reaches a whole new level.
As far as I know, Vulcan mental abilities are not as potent as Betazoid abilities. Vulcans have limited psionic abilities but theirs seem to be at their strongest when physical contact is possible. Betazoids seem to be unable to turn their psychic and empathic abilities off at all; they're a part of them, like our sense of hearing or sight. You can close your eyes, but you'll always see light bleeding through; you can close your ears, but you will always hear something.
My impression is that for vulcans, it's a muscle that they must exercise. For betazoids, it's a sense like any human sense.
You left out that a Betazoid female when they enter mid-life will go through an extremely less violent and lethal version of the Vulcan Bon Farr.
And more fun.
I'm pretty sure they confirm it on the First Contact episode when Picard and Troi beam down to introduce themselves and in the DS9 episode talking about the Dominion taking Federation planets - Betazed was one of them that everyone was heart broken about.
I’ll grant you, what they did to Betazed did add a great deal of audience empathy for the Dominion. Especially if they somehow managed to rid us of Lawxana Troi.
@@andrewtaylor940 they didn’t 😂😂🥲😂 but I know what you mean
I always asumed the reason for the naked wedding, was to symbolize there is "nothing to hide".
Within a Empathic and Telepathic species, it is not like thoughts and feelings can be hidden. Everyone knows who of the quests has a crush on the groom and/or bride. And that is okay, no need to act on it.
Preferably not act on it. If you wanted to make a move, too late now.
It might be because the kind of people who spend money on merchandise and books are also the kind of people who would enjoy thinking about a naked wedding.
@@lenandov Star Trek makers understand Theis Titilation Theory. Given that they are its namegiver. Compared to that, nakedness is vulgar at best.
So, you ask the Betazoid girl to marry you, she say yes, and you end up doing everyday aggressive cardio and strength training while living on protein shakes. When all is said and done, and you haven’t eaten a carb in almost a year, hope you don’t resent your fiancé.
I think it was written in as a joke
Romulan commander on viewscreen: "I will DESTROY you!". Counselor troy: "captain, I'm sensing hostility". Yeah, real useful.
If someone is an Ambassador, it's pretty much required that they are citizens of whoever they are representing.... Since Ambassador Troi and Ambassador Dax are also important persons on their homeworlds, it's safe to assume Trill and Betazed are UFP. In the cases of K'Ehleyr and Worf, they were both raised by the Federation.
At least if we asume this works like our curent system. The ancient Greek proxenos was actualy a Citizen of the host Polis (a bit like our Honorary Consul).
I remember reading a cartoon once where someone asked Diana Troy how she knew that something bad was about to happen to which she replied I merely listen for the ominous background music!! 😁
Classy answer.
The Betazoids joined the Federation in TNG Season 2, Episode 19, "Manhunt". In the episode the Enterprise takes Lwaxana Troi to a diplomatic conference on the planet Pacifica where the Betazoid's and the Andarian's are going through the final phases of their reviews for joining the Federation. As mentioned in the video above and comments below, it was occupied by the Dominion during DS9 and was a federation member at the time.
For some people in the comments, Deana Troi's father is a human and Federation citizen, which meant she was considered a Federation citizen for the purposes of joining Starfleet. (Being the only daughter of the most powerful of the 20 Great Houses and the closest thing Betazed has to a princess certainly helped. )
This is purely speculation, but her acceptance to Starfleet and assignment to the flagship may have been a political public relations move by the Federation. News about the Enterprise D, Troi and how the Federation embodies the Betazoid's moral and ethical standards would have done a lot to sway public opinion in favor of joining the UFP.
That's an interesting interpretation, but regardless of that, Troi was very much qualified for the position and happened to be very good at it. She's a good psychologist, she's emphatic and caring, but at the same time, honest and firm. Also did not know that there are Ascension was recent to the Federation, kind of surprising considering how close they are to the major worlds of the Federation and how advanced their society really is. The fact that Earth was getting perilously close to striking distance of the Dominion soon after betazrd gives an idea how close it is to the Federations core.
I've always wondered what a Betazoid/Vulcan child turn out. Both have mental powers, so they might compliment each other well. But the young might be extra uncontrollable.
Ah yes the betazoids who else could give us such useful information such as "romulans are untrustworthy"
racist
@@pearsegallagher9832 I believe the correct term is specisist, (or xenophobic that is kind of a catch all for most forms of bigotry with the added bonus of the fact that they are actually xenos) I mean if you are going to rightfully point out my clear anti alien sentiment at least be grammatically correct thank you very much! (please note this is a joke I am not really that pedantic)
@@ronaldlennier86 i know its xenophobic i was being lazy
@@pearsegallagher9832 good. No need to waste your brain on such creatures.
Yep, there's Star Treks own Captain Obvious!
Considering it was mentioned in DS9 that betazed has fallen to the dominion and they didnt had an own observer at the signing of the peace treaty I would assume they are probably a member of the UFP.
well, considering the first paragraph about Betazoids on memory alpha goes like this:
"The Betazoids or Betazeds were a telepathic humanoid civilization originating from the Federation planet Betazed in the Alpha Quadrant"
I'd say you are right :)
Yeah, as far as I remember, the treaty of Bajor explicitly said all territories would revert to their pre-war state, meaning the dominion would give up any claims to territories they'd gained.
I've often wondered what the Psi potential of a Vulcan/Betazoid offspring might be...?
the duality of precious feelings and cold logic maybe that's where Tuvix's come from in the wild
@@dbix11 I've often thought that Spock's half-human side actually gave him more emotional stability given that it may have tempered some of that hot Vulcan blood and the same might hold true with Tuvix to a certain extent. Now a Vulcan/Betazoid blending would be a combination of two very passionate species so a fair bit of emotional containment might be necessary before any psi tutelage can begin.
I see three potentials: Strong Telepathic Abilities, Empathic Abilities or Empathic and Telepathic. It would likely be greatly influenced on which planet they are raised on. If raised on Vulcan and taught to suppress emotion they may develop no empathic ability at all, but could have powerful telepathic abilities beyond what either parent's species is capable of. There is a chance they could develop both abilities but would be 'weaker' compared to a full Betazoid, whom seem to have more capabilities then Vulcans. Though I could see any child raised on Vulcan going very wrong once they hit puberty. If they try to suppress their emotions like culturally taught on Vulcan it could cause serious psychological damage, especially if they were born with the empathic ability versus only telepathic. The best outcome would happen if raised on Betazoid or neither planets.
@@randybentley2633 The only good thing is that Betazoid abilities do not develop until after puberty. This would require a lot of training before they ever hit puberty to prevent a psychological disaster for the child. They would need to walk the thin line between feeling and not feeling. They would have to be taught how to emotionally detach. Which if brought up with some Vulcan traditional could be possible. They would have to figure out how to turn off their abilities which full Betazoid cannot do. That would have been taught by the Vulcan parent. They would never be able to fully detach from emotions like a Vulcan can. That goes against their core function between emotional species. I would assume that the Betazoid use mediation similar to Vulcans because a planet full of empathy with no off switch sounds awful honestly. It would be a toss up on the outcome until they hit puberty. It's possible they would have to use some form of hormonal regulator during this period to avoid emotional outbursts, ect.
@@SecretKeeperForever9, the presets may not be set entirely in stone as we saw with Tam Elbrun, and with the introduction of another genome with inherent psionic characteristics coming in that could cause some switches to be thrown either early or later than expected and it would potentially be best that this family at the very best should stay within beaming distance of a hospital facility or at worst a Starfleet starship because the cultural ordinary rules of child-rearing are gonna be turned on their head. Hopefully, the family goes into this with such an understanding.
At one point, you will come to do a series on the Eight Votan races from Defiance. They are eight races the evolved in the same system and then had to leave said system because of interstellar collisions.
Maybe also a few videos with some of the main species from The Orville, such as the Moclans, the Xelayans, the Kaylon, or the Krill.
I know you've not done much Farscape, but the Peacekeepers would be interesting.
Agreed.
I really enjoy your Star Trek cultural videos :)
That was something I never got, the biological need to be an empath. To reduce suffering in the collective is an amazing deduction, fictional as it is.
Well. Its not a need
But those who developped it (random mutations) had an immense advantage. Leading to more offsprings. Though the amount of mutations needed to line up means that either every mutation that led up to was not harmful. Even if it did nothing. Maybe that is why it is rare in species. The amount of things needed to line up to make it happen lowers the chance
They don't *need* to be empaths, it's more like telepathy but just for emotions. It's not they're really good at seeing other people's feelings, they literally feel them too
It could also be an outgrowth of a species having non-verbal communication methods. Social Insects communicate through biochemical scents, another species may develop a broadcast radiation. Powerful ability to sense neuro-electrical signals. The more fascinating thing is telepathic species that also have developed and functional verbal communication. It makes sense as explained with Betazoids because their telepathy develops in adolescence, which lends towards it being a mutation later in their development. Star Trek also has a tendency to treat it as an inevitable evolutionary step. All the way back in "Where No Man has Gone Before" humans were taking note of humans with high ESP ratings, apparently expecting humanity to evolve telepathy as time went on.
@@3Rayfire It's a universe with funky space nonsense and weird rocks that can (in old beta canon tunnel into the 4th dimension) among any number of weird rocks. Would stand to reason their biology however intended to be similar to ours would be somewhat different in such a setting.
Im pretty sure they are a part of the federation, especially when during the dominion war its occupation was seen as a giant loss for the federation, partly due to its proximity to Vulcan and Earth, but also due to it being a core world in the first place. That and the Betazoids have federation Ambassadors same as all the other member species.
the are:
The Betazoids or Betazeds were a telepathic humanoid civilization originating from the Federation planet Betazed in the Alpha Quadrant
-Memory Alpha, Betaziods, first paragraph-
I appreciate this episode. Betazoids are one of my fav,yet most wondered about, races. As an Rp gamer, I've found it fun, at times, to remind people that whatever powers they've thought they'd be most fearful of, telepathy should always be near the top. I don't have to hurt you; I can change the way you think, and leave you questioning if even the thoughts in your mind were really your own. In a game of Star Trek RPG a friend of mine wrote, our black ops ship's Commander was a gruff, manipulative Betazoid, and we all knew she could probably sense our feelings and thoughts. The extent and truth of her abilities was a mystery to us, but she gladly leveraged our ignorance against us, leading us to wonder what she could do. It left me wondering, in the past, if the Federation had any actual "rules" for telepathy. Betazoids, Vulcan, Lethians,Lothian, a few others demonstrated a range of abilities, strengths, and willingness to do bad. I guess none of them were Charles Xavier-level threats, but I wondered, and the general answer I got was "none are that powerful + honor system, so they just assume no Vulcan telepathy-terrorists will use ancient weapons, and no Betazoids will spy for money".
Anyway, it's nice to see this, and get some ideas about how they actually look at their own abilities, and why they probably wouldn't be threats with them.
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Too bad, we didn't see this on screen.
"Welcome to our planet! It's name is-"
"Oh! We know your planet's name, it's been in our catalogues for centuries! Your planet is called P3X-595, and your species is called P3X-595oids! We are humans, from Earth, pleased to meet you!"
things I'd like to see you do. The Goa'uld from stargate, also the Jaffa, Wraith and the Ori. I'd also like to see you do the Pilots from Farscape
Suggesting again a video on the Silurians. You've done a video on the Voth and there should be one on the more classic sci-fi evolved Dino Antagonists who even have a semi-important thought experiment/space studies paper named after them.
My Betazoid Captain is sad that she can’t visit her own homeworld in STO.
Forced empathic assault sounds intense on both sides. I’m gonna have to get around to actually watching DS9 one of these days too.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
I recommend the Minbari or Vorlons from Babylon 5. J just started watching the show and gotta say it's pretty good so far.
It's fascinating that we get to see such a wide variety of psionic abilities even within full Betazoids, from mind-blind Lon Suder to hyper-telepathic Tam Elbrun. It makes the Betazoids much more interesting.
I never realized how weird it was to name planets after their most intelligent species. That'd be like us calling Earth Humania
Humans are called Earthlings or Terran in some universes.
Earthlings, Terrans, both common enough alternate names. "Earthers" gets an honorable mention.
Hu - MANIA is about right with how crazy like is in 2021.
Its weirder to me that they would call themselves whatever the humans call them. I mean thousands of years of history and some other species who you just meet gives you a name and you're like" OK im betazoid now" or whatever :D
The native name is different. That may be the name they go by after joining the Federation or once they entered their Space Age.
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Zygerrians would be my vote. Loving these videos! Keep up the fantastic work!
Why _aren't_ they called 'Cyndriels?' It sounds cool and Elvish. 'Betazoid' sounds like a mech that didn't get fully developed.
Wow, and Thanks, this was one of the Best, you have made
what were the effects of forced emphatic on the invaders that are thought to dispise weakness and how did they used it against them? Also were there any residual effect on them afterward or that they just didn't had the chance to see that because they were all executed for their faliors?
Nice one. Very good use of the information available.
this was terrific, thank you Rick
Thank you Ric for your insightful look at this Race
There’s a LOT of sci-fi-edged cosmic stuff in D&D lore :D
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Betazed is totally in the Federation, its mentioned in the Dominion wars as being conquered by the Dominion. Also Troi's father was a Starfleet Officer serving on Betazed.
i was about to say the same. and also Lwaxana Troi was a federation ambassador to DS9 in 2369. i think it's implied.
I agree it is in the Federation but Troi's father serving there isn't proof of that. The USA has bases in other countries for example.
@@danielyeshe good point but they are mentioned as members in TNG but often off handed and implied for sure. There have been a few good Betazed story lines but somehow they also seem like a underserved species in Trek.
@@chonconnor6144 Undeserved? I am sorry I am not sure what you mean.
@@danielyeshe *under-served as in their culture does not get a lot of story service in the scripts and Betazed/Betazoids are presented in a one note yet oddly unspecific way. Just "the telepaths blah blah".
I like your videos they're very informative.
Great video.
I never noticed that about their iris'
*irises
I appreciate the explanation of Lwaxanas lengthy title lol
I laughed waaay back when i heard about the dominion attacking betazed.
"Youre going to attack a planet of telepaths? .... Good luck with that."
Dude you are *_THE BOMB!_* 🥰❤️
I don’t dislike Lwuxanna but I totally get why Picard goes to enormous lengths to avoid her.
The way she fills a room is…. unnerving.
Can you imagine a Betazoid/Vulcan child? Emotionless yet psychic and able to understand emotion? They would rule the galaxy.
Could we get an index on the sigmazoids of planet Grindset next please?
Ugh that bullshit. You’re a man, no categories. Stop labeling yourself. Feeble minds need to sort everything into neat boxes.
@@theharbingerofconflation you *have* to know he’s kidding
@@nathanbyrne24 I know he is and this shit still annoys me just for existing! It's like fidget spinners! Only solution? Burn it with fire!
Nice video. Superb show Ric. it like Star wars going to win next week LOL. It Would be nice to see ZYGERRIANS in your next Certifiably Ingame show.
It's too bad we never got to re-visit Gem's people from the TOS ep "The Empath". After all, it seems the Vians did choose to rescue them. I'd love to know how that turned out! Being able to literally absorb others' illnesses and injuries is an unusual type of empathy that Trek sadly never explores again, as far as I recall.
A full Betazoid telepath and a healer-empath from Gem's people would make a very interesting team!
I would say it’s confirmed on screen that Betazoid is a part of the federation due to the fact that during the dominion war, it was on a federation map and implied when the dominion attacked there
Betazed was destroyed by the Borg Armada invasion in Star Trek Destiny trilogy, David Mack. 100 Borg Cubes massive Cubes swept through the Federation and was finally stopped only a few hours from Earth.
It would be interesting to see the return of those 'demons' and discover how far the rabbit hole goes.
I love the idea of a pre-warp species going to war with non-corporeal aliens using their telepathic abilities.
Love your channel big fan! but i do believe the capital is pronounced Reeks, but spelled Rixx. Sorry, it is just one of my favorite planets besides Risa, defiantly would retire on one of them
Star fleet had a base on betazed
I wonder if a Vulcan-Betazoid child would have stronger or weaker psychic abilities...
It could go either way I think. I think the telepathy could be very strong. Empathy could be influenced by upbringing. If raised on Vulcan they could never develop empathy at all since they would have been raised to suppress emotions. That may not work however. I feel they would be a rather emotional combination. Trying to get someone to be that goes against biology rarely works out. It could be a disaster if not raised properly. Since Vulcan have a history of violent emotions and combine that with empathy...
Betazed is explicitly said to be one of the founding members of the federation in DS9. When the bergeron's were debating whether to leave the federation or not during the Dominion war, Cisco is talking to kira narisse about it, Cisco tries to reassure her that the federation will protect Bayshore and Kyra asked sisko, "are you sure about that, Starfleet will protect us from the Dominion no matter what? You can guarantee Starfleet would never pull back and ships what if a founding planet comes under attack what if betazed comes under attack? What if Earth is?"
A fully telepathic species would be interestingly different from ours in that there'd be no secrets, no espionage, no intrigue related to the covert. It'd likely be a foreign and hard to understand concept for them. If anything, they might seem boring to us.
Finally real Star Trek!
The Occupation of Betazed was BRUTAL. 75 million died. And after the war a huge exodus of BEtazoids left the planet to start new lives elsewhere.
I genuinely didn't notice that Troi had completely black eyes until several seasons in... I remember noting it was weird that her mother did, and then after one or two other Betazoids turned up on the show, it suddenly clicked, and for a while I couldn't unsee it!
I do believe the betazoids are members of the United federation of planets I mean the source that I would say is there are tons of Starfleet officers who are betazoids I know that doesn't mean anything cuz nog was a you know an officer but I think it's pretty much a given
I mean the biggest sign that Betazed is part of the Federation in Alpha Canon is that Lwaxana visited DS9 as part of a Federation Delegation. I doubt you get to be ambassador for the Federation without being a citizen of the Federation?
Is there a real universe star system that is supposed to correspond to Beta Zeta in the same way that 40 Eridani A is supposed to correspond to Vulcan?
Unfortunately Betazed was devastated by the Borg in thier next invasion after the Dominion War the Queen sent 100 cubes into the Alpha Quadrant.
It was devastating. The Borg got as far as Betazed a core world before they were stopped by the Calier.
(the Travelers race). We find out where the Borg came from and what thier interest in Earth is.
It took NX01,, NCC1701, NCC 1701 E, Voyager to stop the invasion.
The Calier helped end the threat of the Borg for good.
It was inferred that Troi was able to communicate telepathically with Riker in the pilot episode too, suggesting a strong emotional bond allows half Betazoids to share thoughts with non telepaths.
Packled, strong!
I've been watching tng for a long tine and only just found out about betazoid eyes.
Can you do some from Star Gate species?
There is an episode on ds9 where they recieve a group of Federetion ambassadors and among them Ambassador Troy of Betazed. So Betazed is in the UFP.
I wanna know more about the Vidiians. Is there enough known about them for you to make a video on the species, or did they only ever appear in the two episodes I know of and never again?
I am sure a psychopath, narcissist, Machiavellian telepath would have no problems with mind manipulation of others, or just phaser shooting enemies. It is like the real life concept of the good empath and the evil dark empathy. They both have ability at sensing and psychogically reading people, but their motivations are different.
This just should have been telepathically beamed to our brains.
How do you know it isn't.... Is someone physically telling you this in person? wOOoOoo
Why do I get the mental impression that the "battle of Betazed" was really just a bunch of people in bathrobes running around in circles going "crap! crap! crap! crap!
"... Oh, it was horrible, pools of wine everywhere.. "
Interesting folk.
Betazed is member of UFP
One of my favourite Star Trek races off all time
Their planet looks like a vacation spot in the best of times.
Dang, so many Betazoids sacrificed themselves for the sake of forcing empathy on their occupiers while refusing actual bloodshed? Mad respect! :O
Love how this world is like planet earth 🌏🌎🌍
How about starting some Red Dwarf/B5 species?
How about a video on the tribbles
I know it’s not really Star Wars or Star Trek, but can you look at the ADVENT administration from the game xcom 2? I think they’re pretty interesting
xcom story at all would be amazing
I pointed this out before, most of the betazoids we've seen in canon have been neurodivergent.
Neurodivergent in comparison to human norms. Not necessarily to Betazed norms.
@@MonCappy Deanna Troi, Tam Elbrun, and Lon Suder at very least are explicitly neurodivergent by Betazoid standards.
@@notoriouswhitemoth The other two yep Troi not really a Betazoid but a hybrid. She'd need to be compared to other hybrids to know that.
@@LanMandragon1720 fair point
could you an index on the Sheliak?
Four deities... pleasure based society.... oh my Emperor! THEY ARE CHAOS CULTISTS!
Hmm, I wonder if they're Slaanesh or Tzeentch worshipers..?
I mean, Slaanesh would be obvious, but they're also telepaths which is Tzeentch's domain...
In any case; *EXTERMINATUS!*
@@The_Keeper Sorry, but UFP ships are protecting Betazed, there's no Exterminatus today :3
5:31 is that the Legendary Colombia or the Lobi version?
0:53 So, we named their home world? How is that fair, what if some aliens tried to rename Earth.
Well Iran was called Persia for a long time even though the locals have always called it "Iran" and it was named Persia by the ancient Greeks, so it's not like its something new, sometimes certain names just stick for example there could be a vocalization or telepathic component in the native name for Betazed that's hard or impossible for non-Betazoids to do and thus most people would prefer a name they can say. There's no indication that name Betazed was forced as the official name but rather that it kind of just became that over time, probably because most people were already using it anyway as the native name wasn't known and you had to call it something.
Yeah native people of Nippon/Nihon and China don't call it Japan....but the entire rest of the world calls it Japan or something similar.
@@tonyjackson4078 It's not even just Asian or African countries that has it either, my native country is called "Finland" or some variation of that by pretty everyone else but we call it "Suomi" and have done so for ages and we're a Nordic Country which means we're in North Europe.
@@SampoPaalanen yup, it's not really unprecedented.
I don't recall any Betazoids complaining about it. No need to make them into some type of victim.
Don’t prob my mind to much you might find kinky stuff uwu
*probe, *too
Betazoids are very similar to Asari from ME.
That might be why Marina Sirtis was chosen to play Matriarch Benezia.
Betazed is a Federation member world, not an ally.
I think tge confusion comes from Trois mother being called 'Ambassador'.
Every Federation world has a representative in the Federation Council an 'ambassador' from their own world to the larger Federation Family.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the fashion of wearing wigs with caged animals in them. With so little onscreen history, even little comments like this help to flesh out something of their history.
"Did you 'manscape' for the wedding?"
I would like to hear about the Zygerian slavers.
In Re: rationale for lack of large-scale war on Betazed -- it would likely be both for the cited rationale (overwhelming suffering to a normally empathic species) but also because *as* an empathic/telepathic species their lines of interpersonal as well as inter-regional communication would be clearer and less veiled; that is, most Betazoids (and their leaders) would be more insightful and less prone to certain contexts of socio-political misunderstandings as well as machinations than most other species would be. (Even for other telepathic races, like Vulcans, this wouldn't necessarily be the case as those other races aren't noted to have the integrated communal sense that most Betazoids demonstrate or are at least implied as having.) That's an important context in this particular case.
EDIT: also, though not explicitly stated, it is strongly implied in the TNG episode "First Contact" (s4e15) that Betazed *is* one of the planets in the Federation, when Picard and Deanna present themselves to a scientist and Deanna explains/cites their origins, noting that they come from a Federation of planets then consequently noting that Picard comes from a planet called Earth and she comes from Betazed. Again, while not explicitly stated, it is a reasonable inference-of-listing-reference on the part of the scientist/viewing audience, and understood as implicit in reference.