Ursinoids

Ursinoids are a fictional alien race featured in the Star Trek multimedia franchise. It appeared in the tenth episode of season one of Star Trek: The Animated Series titled "Mudd's Passion".

Ursinoids are bipedal non-human aliens indigenous to the planet Motherlode in the Arcadian system. They have physical characteristics similar to that of Earth bears. Ursinoids worked as miners on Motherlode, along with a small contingent of human laborers. On 4978.5, a con-man and swindler known as Harcourt Fenton Mudd came to Motherlode trying to sell a love potion that he garanteed would make any member of the opposite sex fall in love with them. To demonstrate this, he presented a beautiful blonde woman named Lora, who fawned all over Mudd. The Ursinoids were impressed and prepared to make a deal until Captain James T. Kirk and Mister Spock arrived on the planet. The Ursinoids snarled at these new visitors until Mister Spock used his phaser to dispel the illusion of the beautiful Lora, revealing it to be a Rigelian hypnoid. The Ursinoids were outraged and began throwing rocks at Harcourt Mudd, forcing him to seek safety with the Federation officers.