Star Trek: Picard: Analyzing All The Ships From Season One

3. Orchids

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Maybe not technically starships, the synth orchids were massive defensive organisms deployed in orbit of Ghulion IV in "Et In Arcadia Ego, Parts 1 and 2". Narek called them "ship-killing flowers that fly" and that's an astute description.

Capable of attaching themselves to the hull of a starship, the orchids could drain power from a vessel and pull it into the atmosphere of Coppelius where the ship would crash.

Strangely, the orchids may have actually appeared prior to Star Trek: Picard in Star Trek: Discovery's main title sequence, which depicts a gigantic flower-like creature extending a tentacle toward the USS Discovery.

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I played Shipyard Bar Patron (Uncredited) in Star Trek (2009).