Modern science predicts the universe is over thirteen billion years old, yet humanity has only existed in its modern form for roughly 200,000 years. Before we came along, there has been a lot of time for other interstellar empires to emerge. Star Trek has introduced us to many alien societies that predate the Federation by eons.
Many of these ancient civilisations have disappeared, gone extinct, or ascended to a higher plane of existence, and a few have even managed to survive into modern times and beyond. Here, we're going to look back at the ancient galactic history of Trek and uncover the most mysterious alien societies that existed in the Milky Way before us. These aren't necessarily the oldest ancient civilisations (which could very well be its own list), these are just the ones that we're most curious about.
If your favourite ancient aliens don't turn up here, fear not - there's enough worlds that have been decimated by the passage of time that there's always room for a sequel list. With that cheerful thought in your mind, let's dive in. 10.
The Hur'q In the 14th century the Klingon home world was pillaged by alien invaders from the Gamma Quadrant who came to be known as the Hur'q—a Klingon word meaning ‘outsider’. They were chased off Qo’noS by a Klingon rebellion, but not before making off with the Sword of Kahless and hiding it in their home quadrant. It remained there until it was rediscovered in the 24th century, by which point the Hur'q were nowhere to be .
