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Le-matya
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| See also: | sehlat |
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A le-matya is a predatory animal native to planet Vulcan, presumably a mammal.
Le-matyas are large, have four legs, a tail, and have poisonous claws. Some fans portray them as resembling lions.
They were portrayed in canon in the Star Trek: Animated episode "Yesteryear" as well as the novelization of that episode.
Fanworks have unitized a variety of alternate spellings such as "l'matya," "L'Matya," "le matya," "lematya," "lematya," and "le-matya".
A similar animal is the sehlat.
A fan in 1994 described a scene at the convention, Shore Leave: "...the dealers' tables were picked bare like Lematya bones in the Vulcan desert!" [1]
Sometimes Featured as a Pelt!
- Alexi by Sharon Pillsbury (a minor appearance of a le-matya -- in the form of a pelt!) (1990)
- Winds of Chance by Gena Moretti (features le-matya fur rug in Spock quarters) (1991)
- Human Preference by P.K. Barnes (While not an actual le-matya, this story includes Spock's bedspread with a le matya stitched in gold thread.) (1994)
Some Sample Fanworks
Fiction
- Twilight and Evening Bells by Leslye Lilker ([[Sahaj avoids lematyas during a Vulcan desert adventure.) (1976)
- Full Circle by Nancy Collins (original character (T'Kreiger, one of T'Pau's antecedents, fights a le-matya as well as a sehlat) (1979)
- Amanda of Vulcan by Jean Lorrah (Amanda Grayson has a run-in with a pair of lematya: "Amanda is anointed as an ambassador, she single-handedly defeats a marauding le-matya, and finally decides her life isn't so bad after all." [2]
- T'Mera by Maria Woisard ("What happens when our illustrious Captain Kirk, the defender of female virtue, saves an eighty-year-old, unbonded Vulcan female from a dreaded lematya? Why, he marries her, of course!" [3]) (around 1984)
- Tales from the Vulcan Hearth (includes stories about the words of the Ancients; and how Vulcans lost their wings, why the sehlat and the le-matya cannot live in peace) (1989)
- One Sundered Sou by Carolyn Spencer (includes a scene of one character sucking a le-matya's venom out of another character) (1992)
- Night of the Le-Matya by JS Cavalcante (In which "Night of the Le-Matya" is the traditional time when ancient Vulcans were dedicated to truth.) (1992)
- Dance of the Le Matya by Erica Bulsara ("Spock wins a planetary contest and unknowingly picks Kirk as his prize for the night.") (1995)
- Lematya Lessons by S.R. Benjamin (2002)
- No Beach to Walk On by Gamin Davis (Kirk is bitten by a le-matya) (2000)
Art
from Millennium #1, artist is Susan Armstrong (1977)
from Pastak #5, Amy Harlib is the artist, portrays an original character (T'Kreiger, one of T'Pau's antecedents, fighting a le-matya (1979)
from Nome #4, artist is Evallou Richardson (1981)
from Dance of the Le Matya, artist is Erica Bulsara (1995)
References
- ^ from Come Together #8
- ^ from Datazine. #2 ) (1979)
- ^ from Universal Translator #29