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Pyrithian moon hawk

A paper model of a Pyrithian moon hawk

The Pyrithian moon hawk was a type of raptor that functioned as a natural predator to the Pyrithian bat.

When his Pyrithian bat escaped from its cage in 2152, Doctor Phlox made a blue paper Pyrithian moon hawk with movable wings and imitated the call of the hawk (he mastered the call, years ago) to scare the bat. Unfortunately, he wasn't very successful and discarded of the paper hawk. (ENT: "A Night in Sickbay")

The use of the term "Pyrithian" in this series, and reference was unclear. The word was originally introduced in Star Trek: Voyager in associated with the Pyrithian Gorge, located on Talaxian homeworld, in the Delta Quadrant. Since the Pyrithian moon hawk and Pyrithian bat, two species known to the Denobulans, were presumably native to a planet in the Alpha or Beta Quadrant, it would seem apparent that this term was not related, and was simply used by two distinct cultures, such as the term "Darmok".
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 44) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), there was a star system named Pyrithia (26 Draconis), which might possibly be the system of origin for this species, in the Alpha Quadrant. This was a trinary system with a G-class star, a M-class star, and a K-class star. This system was a destination on a Denobulan trade route in the 22nd century.
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