you make caitian this how cool is that

 I know caitan may be the official name, but they are Kzinti to me ;)

Caitians ARE cool..  I plan to have at least several bridge officers who are Caitian.  And I've been thinking I might even make my main character one.

Aren't those the cat creatures?

Yep...  Cat people for the win.

Having options other then various shaped ridges is certainly a welcome change.  The Caitian in the movie did look pretty mean looking and would certainly be pretty cool to see in game. I do worry about some people who  may pick female caitians though *shudder* .

Originally posted by Nindran

you make caitian this how cool is that

Where was the confirmation of that?

I know there was a lot of talk about caitians recently (did you all get together and plan that or something ;)), but I may have missed the dev respones...

I don't think it has been explicitly confirmed, but I remember asking about tails and stuff and Matt hinted yes. That indicates a possibility for Caitians.

 I was hoping that the genesis system would pull user created races randomly. Would be a cool way for users to populate the game word

Weren't the caits the Lyran in Star Fleet Battles and the SFC series? 

Originally posted by Kinneas

Weren't the caits the Lyran in Star Fleet Battles and the SFC series? 

I have no idea... But I like Caitans <.< 

Originally posted by jackel1981

 I was hoping that the genesis system would pull user created races randomly. Would be a cool way for users to populate the game word

Please for the love of god, no. I don't have an issue with user created content generally but you have to remember that there will be a lot of jokers, morons and idiots playing this game as well as there are in every game. I wouldn't mind them having a "submit a race" feature that a race could be submitted to add to Genesis after being approved by the devs/GMs. The last thing I want to do is go out exploring and find a planet populated by purple people eaters or Elvis clones... LOL 

As for Caitians I like the idea of being able to create them. I'm hoping that because of the way their Character generator works premade race choices will be nothing more than templates. This way they could possibly have dozens of premade races as they would be nothing more than seed numbers that would be fed into the character generator to get a general look and stats for a pre-existing Star Trek race. Then you would just have to tweak it a bit to make it unique to you.

Bren

Caitians would be a really nice addition.

A mate of mine would always RP a caitian.

Would be cool if you could make them or if there is enough intrest cryptic might make it a "selectable" race.  At least add the parts anyway.

The Lyrians, from memory, where cat people or osmething like that.  Not sure if they are the same caitians.

-koraQ

I can't imagine i'd want one in my bridge crew, maybe they'd be a good bartender or something :-)

I have never heard of this race (sorry!). Can someone tell me what series and/or episode they are in?

This race should be in the game. I for one want to have a caitian as one of my Bo.

Originally posted by Kamenev

I have never heard of this race (sorry!). Can someone tell me what series and/or episode they are in?

They are the Cat race, you see then in the animated series, theres also one in Star Trek V that attacks kirk in the bar on Nimbus.

In the SFC games they would be the Lyrans I believe, whom had some very nice ships to fly, as well as some of the better taunts.

Actually in SFC2-OP there are something like nearly 2000 different ships to fly, some of those are just model variants, but never the less a ton of choices.

To be completely honest i hope that It's very difficult to pull of a "caitian" appearance in STO. No offence to those of you who want them but they are VERY rarely seen in ST and i just can't wrap my head around having Dozens upon Dozens upon THOUSANDS of the darn things running around STO and coughing up furballs :(