I suggest renaming this page to "Denevan neural parasite". That seems to be the convention for naming these creatures. Alex Peckover 08:39, Aug 31, 2004 (CEST)

The problem is they aren't Denevan. Deneva was only the last stop in a pretty sizable array of planets infected over a long space of time. Same with the TNG neural parasites, we know neither monster's origin -- Captain Mike K. Bartel 15:37, 31 Aug 2004 (CEST)

Fair point, it's just that "Denevan neural parasite" is what the Encyclopedia calls them. Alex Peckover 16:03, Sep 3, 2004 (CEST)

Maybe Beta Portolan neural parasites, since that was the first planet they hit? --Steve 23:48, 19 Nov 2004 (CET)

Whatever the case this name is not suitable as long as the TOS qualifier (re: pov) is on it, perhaps Neural parasite (23rd century) would be better? --Alan del Beccio 07:06, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd support using the timeframe as Alan suggests, even though it is still pretty suggestive to pin down these possibly long-traveled creatures. Another option would be to merge the pages back into suptopics of neural parasite. -- Captain Mike K. Bartel^talk 07:10, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

The Parasite is from a single cell organism, that is part of a larger organism. That is to long for a name, but I feel like the best name is somewhere in there. --TOSrules 07:20, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

RemovedEdit

As part of a modest rewrite I've had to remove a few statements. -- Capricorn 18:43, September 25, 2010 (UTC)

• (about their resemblece to brain cells): It would be more correct to say that the parasites resembled the body, or soma, of a neuron, since a complete neuron has branch-like structures called axons and dendrites; the parasites lacked these

nitpick. also, Spock might have been referring to Vulcan brain cells.

• (about their flight capability): perhaps by telekinesis

Speculation.

Connection? Edit

Is it possible that these creatures are related to the ones in the Enterprise episode Vox Sola? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.221.161.135 (talk).

Anything is possible, but I highly doubt it- and it was not said in canon so any such alleged similarity would be speculation which we don't put in articles.--31dot 02:53, November 18, 2011 (UTC)