| abstract | - Kukulkan's zoo was a collection of creatures kept aboard Kukulkan's starship by Kukulkan. According to Kukulkan, his machinery created a virtual world for each creature so they could live peacefully in their native environment. According to Kukulkan, they had little intelligence. (TAS: "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth") Although some of the creatures look more like plants, the fact that they were placed in virtual enviroments presumably implies some sapience. Several of the creatures were in different cages in different shots; this is either an animation error or perhaps there were multiple specimens for each species. In the audio commentary for "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth", David Wise mentions that "If you were to read the original script, we had animals, various life forms from earlier episodes of the live action Star Trek. There was a tribble, a couple of tribbles in one cage, there was a Horta from "Devil in the Dark" [sic] in another cage, they were supposed to be reference, the various menagerie of characters who had appeared in earlier Star Treks." Upon reviewing the episode, he commented, "But what they came up with here is quite good. These are some nifty aliens."
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