A male Vori
The Vori are a race found on a planet in the Delta Quadrant. They are engaged in a war with the Kradin.
The Vori have the same appearance as Humans. For an unknown reason they are engaged in a destructive war with a race called the Kradin, although there is no evidence as to which species (if either) originated on the contested planet. The war is reported to involve genocide and atrocities although there is no direct evidence of this.
The Vori have an unusual training technique. They kidnap members of their race (or aliens) and place them in a controlled environment. A combination of drugs and virtual stimuli then convince the trainee that they have witnessed Kradin atrocities. The resulting soldier is fanatical in their desire to kill the Kradin "beasts". This method was used on Lieutenant Commander Chakotay of the USS Voyager when his shuttle crashed on the planet in 2374. (VOY: "Nemesis")
People
Vori Language
The Vori language is unusual in that it uses a high number of metaphors and military syntax. Some examples of Vori language include:
- Backwalk = Back Off or Retreat ("it is sharper to backwalk")
- Clash = a war / a fight ("you've landed right in the middle of a clash")
- Cluster = to regroup ("it would be sharp to cluster with the others")
- Coverings = clothes ("they were his coverings")
- Crave = want ("do you crave any more?")
- Fast-walk = run / quick-march ("they were fast-walked to the Extermination center")
- Fathom = to know / to understand ("you don't fathom the Nemesis")
- Flame = to burn ("they flamed all our villages")
- Foot-falls = measure of distance
- Glimpse = to see / an eye ("did you glimpse the Nemesis?" "close your glimpses")
- Grey = old (person) ("he's too grey to be of use")
- In the before = in the past
- In the now = in the present
- In the soon-after = in the future
- Nemesis = enemy
- New-light = dawn
- Nullify = to kill / to be killed ("they were nullified")
- Plantings = crops / harvest ("they took our plantings")
- Rages = anger ("you turn your Trembles into Rages")
- Savory = tasty ("I'm afraid it's not very savory")
- Sharp = clever / wise ("it would be sharp to wait until new-light")
- Sphere = planet
- Tellings = what I say / my knowledge ("do my tellings")
- The Trembles = to be scared (cowardly) ("you've got the Trembles")
- Trunks = trees ("we found him in the trunks")
- Way-after = afterlife ("he's passed to the way-after")