Sehlat

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The Sehlat is a "teddy bear"-like animal from Vulcan. They do have however large fangs and wild ones are dangerous. Domesticated sehlats are kept as pets especially for Vulcan children. Spock's pet sehlat is mentioned in TOS canon by his mother. Named I-Chaya, this pet appears onscreen in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode, Yesteryear. A CGI version of a sehlat is shown in Star Trek: Enterprise.

The Fanon Sehlat

title page of Concerning Sehlats

Influential Sehlat Fanworks

• An article from one zine, Spockanalia #5 published a piece that was both influential and an example of the fourth wall. From Boldly Writing: "Spockanalia 5 [1970] ran an important article, 'Concerning Sehlats' by Lee Burwasser. In this piece, the author looks at precedents in nature to see what sort of animal would have six-inch fangs. The author concludes, 'And so our portrait of the sehlat: a carnivore or just possibly tushed omnivore, general shape that of a giant panda, size on the order of an Alaskan brown bear, highly intelligent, and despite the six-inch fangs, of a patient and gentle disposition.... Question: did the sehlat belong to Spock, or was Spock in the care of the sehlat?' The Star Trek production staff read this article, and animators incorporated many of the suggestions into the drawing of the sehlat I-Chaya in the animated episode, 'Yesteryear'."

• The zine Scandals of Shikahr focuses on a bonded Kirk and Spock and their pet sehlat, Mutt.

cover of Scandals of Shikahr, a sehlat-centric zine

• The Sehlat's Roar (1976-1977)

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  cover of The Sehlat's Roar #1 (1976)

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  cover of The Sehlat's Roar #2 (1976)

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  cover of The Sehlat's Roar #3 (1977)

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  Sehlat's Roar #3 sample from her sehlat portfolio, Mary Ann Emerson (1977)

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  Sehlat's Roar #3 sample from her sehlat portfolio, Mary Ann Emerson (1977)

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  Sehlat's Roar #3 sample from her sehlat portfolio, Mary Ann Emerson (1977)

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  Sehlat's Roar #3 sample from her sehlat portfolio, Mary Ann Emerson (1977)

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  cover of The Sehlat's Roar #4 (1977)

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  from Sehlat's Roar #4, from Mary Ann Emerson's portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "He's My Friend Too!" (1977)

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  from Sehlat's Roar #4, from Mary Ann Emerson's portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "The One That Got Away" (1977)

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  from Sehlat's Roar #4, from Mary Ann Emerson's portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "The Healer" (1977)

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  from Sehlat's Roar #4, from Mary Ann Emerson's portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "Drinking Buddies (Oh my aching head)" (1977)

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  from Sehlat's Roar #4, from Mary Ann Emerson's portfolio which portrays crewmembers with a sehlat, "When a Sehlat Wants You to Play -- You Play!" (1977)

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  back cover of The Sehlat's Roar #5 (1977)

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  inside art from Sehlat's Roar #5, by Clare Bell (1977)

• Neutral Zone Outpost (1976-1977)

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  cover of Neutral Zone Outpost #1 (1976)

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  cover of Neutral Zone Outpost #3 (1977)

Some Sehlat Fanart

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  cover of the last issue of Star-Fleet Communications, artist uncredited (1968)

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  inside art from Babel #3 (1972)

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  art by Monica Miller from Interphase #3 (1976)

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  art from issue #20/21 of The Halkan Council, by Elizabeth Marshall (1976)

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  art by Teegar from The Propagator #17 (1976)

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  illustration from IDIC #5, the zine that first published the Sahaj series about Spock having a son, here with a pet Sehlat (1977)

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  back cover of IDIC #5 (1977)

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  front cover of Clipper Trade Ship #13 (1977)

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  front cover of He Who is Close to Nature (1977)

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  back cover of He Who is Close to Nature (1977)

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  art by Martynn from Rigel #3 (1977)

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  Interior art in Archives #1 (1978)

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  from Despatch #38, artist is Diane Klingbeil (1979)

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  from Naked Times #3, artist is Pat Stall, yes, yes, most people are focused on other things, but there is a sehlat in the tent in the background...

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  cover of Those Who Believe (1980s)

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  front cover of Spock #22 -- "Even Sehlats have to go Walkies." (1980)

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  Sternreisen (1981)

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  Sternreisen (1981)

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  cover of Data #52, by Sakura Allison (1983)

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  from Beyond Antares #22, back cover, Katnue Tenneti, "Happiness is a thing called a Sehlat" (1983)

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  from the back cover of a 1984 issue of Communications Console, artist: Annette Taylor -- "You ain't nuthin' but a sehat..."

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  cover of Empathy News January/February 1985

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  front cover of Vault of Tomorrow #9 (1986)

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  back cover of Maine(ly) Trek #4 (1986)

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  artist is Dragon, from Beside Myself #2 (1990)

Sehlat costumes and crafts

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  Fern Marder at the 1974 Star Trek Lives! convention in her award winning sehlat costume, photos used with permission.

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  Fern from another angle. She later "wore it on Amherst campus on Halloween and to the campus Trek club party... and totally horrified my department head..."

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  Stuffed plushie sehlat created by a fan, Francine Ellison, 1983.

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  "His heart where his liver should be." Plushie sehlat by Francine Ellison, 1983.

Links

• Sehlat on Memory Alpha