The Kzinti play a minor role in the Star Trek universe as well. This is due in part to their appearance in an episode of animated Star Trek from the 1970s.

The Soft Weapon - also known as

Script by Larry Niven

This page has grown from numerous requests for information about the Kzinti featured in this episode.  I hope that this episode has "converted" many a star trek fan to the writings of Larry Niven when they happened upon it by chance.

The Kzin have been immortalized as part of cartoon history in the Animated Version of Star Trek which was released in the seventies.  If this series is currently re-running in your area - it is worth checking this episode out if only to laugh at the pink-spacesuit clad kzinti.

If the series isn't running in your area, or you can't wait to see this little gem, Amazon do stock the title. ---> click the video cover right.

The script of course was modified by Larry to incorporate the Star Trek characters and instead of Jason and Anne-Marie Papandreou we have Lt. Sulu and Lt. Uhura, and instead of the puppeteer, Nessus we have Mr Spock taking the part.  

Strange as it sounds, this does actually work out quite well.  The episode also features a wonderful piece of Federation Technology which even by the time of the latest TNG films, Starfleet have not adopted: a belt that puts out its own force field doubling as a spacesuit.. 

Here are some Kzin screenshots from the episode which I obtained from:

The Guide to Animated Star Trek.


A Kzin
Kzin Telepath
The Slaver Box
Kzin bearing teeth

Slaver Weapon in one form
Slaver Weapon in another form
Kzinti Pirate Ship
The Star Trek Crew

Star Trek Role Playing

Star Fleet Battles is a wargame that was made by Task Force Games and is based on the "original" and "animated" versions of Star Trek.

Task force designed several Kzin ships for the game and released fiction and background information on the Kzinti in the publications Nexus and Captain's Log (back issues are still available), which were two periodicals Task Force Published.

Task Force produced minatures of the Kzin ships for use with the game, these can still be ordered from this web site.



For further information; Dragon Magazine printed two past articles about the Kzinti and one on Known Space Dolphins. These articles were:

Kzinti, by Robert Plamondon in Issue #50.

This article delt with addapting the Kzinti to a Dungeons and Dragons environment.

Kzinti Have Landed!: A new race for Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game, by Jom Slobins in Issue #104.

This article delt with adding the Kzinti to the old Fasa Star Trek RPG.

The Dolphins of Known Space: A new race for the Ringworld Game, by Sherman Kahn in Issue #95.

This article expanded on the information giving for Dolphins in the Ringworld RPG and adds rules so players can create Dolphin Explorers.

Thank you to Jay W for supplying the above information.

For further speculation on the Kzin in Star Trek, you might like to try this page:
http://www.allyngibson.net/kzin.html