Horse The horse ( " Equus caballus " ) was a mammal ian hoof ed quadruped native to Earth . For centuries , these animal s were used for transportation by Human s , though horseback riding became primarily a recreational activity . This type of animal could also be referred to as a " mount " or a " steed " . ( ) The term " stallion " was used to describe a male horse . ( ; ) A young horse was referred to as a " foal " , and a young female was known as a " filly " . ( ) People who trained these animals were called horse trainer s . One breed of Earth horse was " Arabian " . ( ) The speed that a trained horse ran could be controlled with reins or a whip . ( ; ) Horses might be startled by loud noises , such as a gun shot , and heat exhaustion could prove lethal to them . The quality of a horse lay in what age it was and whether it was from good or bad stock . A horse that was four year s old was considered relatively young but could nonetheless bear the weight of two adult humanoid s . ( ) The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty included a reference to " all the king ' s horses . " ( ; ) Meanwhile , " horseplay " was a feature of slapstick comedy . ( ) There was also a metaphor about not looking a gift horse in the mouth . ( ; ) Historical uses and references . According to Captain Picard , the Arab s believed that Allah gathered the south wind and made the horse . ( ) Primitive Humans created art istic depictions of horses . One such painting was visible in the time stream as it reset at the end of the Temporal War . ( ) As history proceeded , horses were used extensively in Human history . Both the Guardian of Forever and the aforementioned resetting time stream showed multiple historic images of horses being used by Humans , such as pulling ancient Roman chariot s , as well as being used by riders near pyramid s in Egypt , knight s , and cavalry men of later eras . ( ; ) As regards war fare on Earth , horses were used by soldier s in cavalry raid s . ( ) In or shortly prior to the 13th century , the Chinese Sung Dynasty crafted statue s of horses . ( ) The Bedouin people developed extremely close bonds with their horses . As Picard once stated , " " A fine warhorse would sleep in a Bedouin ' s tent , carry him into battle , feed his children with her milk . " " ( ) Leonardo da Vinci once had grand plans for a bronze horse in Milan , Italy . However , it was ultimately never completed by Leonardo , who instead gave up on the project . ( ) Horses were also used by Humans in the Ancient West . ( ; ) As such , horses were included in many Western film s . Some of the horses in this era hauled carriage s driven by Humans . ( ) In the mid - 19th century , a number of horses were taken from Earth , along with several thousand Humans , by the Skagaran s and resettled on a planet in the Delphic Expanse . After the overthrow of the Skagarans , horses continued to be used as transportation by Humans . ( ) The Clanton gang , most of whom were killed by the Earps during the Battle at the OK Corral on October 26 , 1881 , were horse thieves of the Ancient West . ( ) Horses continued to occasionally be used to pull carriages and wagon s on Earth . Many horses , mostly pulling carriages but also alone , could be found on the street s of San Francisco in 1893 , and Data saw several of these horses when he was accidentally sent there in that time period . ( ) Similarly , just after Kirk and Spock arrived in the year 1930 by way of the Guardian of Forever , a white horse was hauling a Victor Ice Company wagon in order to make deliveries in New York City . ( ) By the time automobile s were introduced as the next step ahead of the horsedrawn carriage , horses were no longer necessary for personal transportation . ( ) However , horsedrawn carriages were still occasionally used . ( ) After the became trapped in the year 1969 and beam ed United States Air Force Captain John Christopher aboard , he attempted to escape from the starship , but Captain James T . Kirk knocked him unconscious . Afterwards , Doctor Leonard McCoy reported to Kirk that , aside from a few minor injuries , Captain Christopher was " as healthy as a proverbial horse . " ( ) In the mid - 20th century , the mission insignia for " Apollo 13 " included three horses in its design . These horses represented the chariot of the ancient Greek sun god Apollo . ( ) A horse race was televised in 1996 and picked up along numerous channels monitored by Neelix and Kes when the was stranded in that year . Horses were also visible in a black - and - white Western which was amongst the many channels . ( ) By the mid - 22nd century , the horses which the Skagarans had resettled on a planet in the Delphic Expanse were still being used as transportation by the Humans there . In a few cases , two of these horses were used to pull one carriage . This was true in the town of North Star , where a school teacher named Bethany had such a carriage . Horses were typically used to travel between North Star and the nearest town , as the distance between these two locations was extremely far . In North Star , a group of four horses were used by Deputy Bennings , two of his subordinates , and a captive Skagaran man when , in 2153 , Bennings and his pair of associates lynched the Skagaran . One of Bennings ' men temporarily left his horse to secure the rope around the Skagaran ' s neck , then , when Bennings fired a pistol into the air , the gunshot caused the Skagaran ' s horse to fear fully run out from under him , leaving him hanging from a tree as his killers rode away . Another man on a horse was riding through a street when Captain Jonathan Archer rendezvoused with Commander , and fellow crewmember T ' Pol , shortly after they arrived in North Star and began investigating the planet . As the trio walked down an adjoining street , the horse continued to carry its rider through the street behind them while another horserider rode his horse past the threesome , on their right side . Thereafter assigned by Archer to journey to a Skagaran settlement ten kilometer s away , T ' Pol and Tucker went to acquire horses for riding there . However , a stablehand they talked to was puzzled how they had managed to come to North Star without a horse , considering the nearest town was so far away . T ' Pol lie d that their horses had perished from heat exhaustion , several mile s to the north of North Star , so the stablehand arranged to indeed give them a horse from his stable . This animal was a four - years - old female horse , of good stock . Though the stablehand offered to sell the horse for twenty dollar s , Tucker instead traded him a harmonica and left his own gun as collateral , saying they only needed the horse for a couple of hour s . Once the stablehand agreed to the deal , the horse was led out of the stable by Tucker , who proceeded to mount the animal . T ' Pol was initially reluctant to join him on horseback , because Tucker hadn ' t had any experience with horse - riding , but he then helped her onto the animal ' s back . Owing to Tucker ' s inexperience , the horse was very slow to start . After Archer and Bethany escaped from Bennings and his cohorts by beaming to " Enterprise " ( following a couple of instances when the pair of fugitives used Bethany ' s two - horse carriage ) , Bennings was admonished by Sheriff MacReady as having been " a horse ' s ass , " referring to when Bennings had intentionally annoyed Draysik , a Skagaran waiter . Soon afterwards , another horse was frightened by the arrival of a from " Enterprise " , in which Archer came back to the planet , along with an away team . The scared animal , a black horse with a man sitting on its back , reared up on its hind leg s , thrust its front legs in the air , and neighed as the shuttlepod landed . Another unhappily startled horse , this one colored dark brown , was in a stable when Archer and Bennings fought each other there , even crashing into its stall and proceeding to grapple with each other right next to the irritated creature ' s legs . ( ) Later the same year , Sim , a clone of Commander Tucker who had the same memories as the commander but thought they were his own , recalled how a pet dog he had once owned , Bedford , had been so large that he had been able to ride him " like a horse . " ( ) In 2154 , while Commander Tucker and Ensign Hoshi Sato were extremely ill with a silicon - based virus , Sato deliriously broke out of medical isolation in " Enterprise " s decontamination chamber , proving extremely resourceful in escaping . As a result , Doctor Phlox advised Tucker to sedate both Sato and himself with three units of sonambutril , a dosage that Tucker remarked " could drop a horse . " ( ) Christopher Pike once owned two horses , Tango and Mary Lou , prior to his service aboard the USS " Enterprise " . ( ) He mentioned these horses to his ship ' s doctor , Philip Boyce , in 2254 . ( ) " In 2257 of the mirror universe , Sylvia Tilly uttered a panicked reference to this type of animal upon attempting to impersonate her counterpart in that universe , Captain " " . This was to tell Captain Spoeneman , the commanding officer of the , to " hold your horses , " as the " Cooper " had been preparing to fire on the starship Tilly was on , the , unless Spoeneman was granted access to speak with her . " ( ) " In the alternate reality created by Nero ' s temporal incursion , was familiar with figurative parlance that related to horses . For example , when criticizing ' s ejection of from the in 2258 , McCoy told Spock , " " You know , back home we got a saying : ' If you ' re gonna ride in the Kentucky Derby , you don ' t leave your prize stallion in the stable . " " However , Spock pointed out that he found this " a curious metaphor , " because it was generally accepted that a stallion had to be broken ( i . e . , trained ) before it could reach its potential . " ( ) " McCoy was also familiar with the term " horse shit " to refer to particular statements that , in hindsight , were completely unhelpful . " ( ) " Later in 2258 of the alternate reality , shortly after Kirk was forcibly dismissed from the " Enterprise " and thereby came to be marooned on , described the notion of transwarp beaming ( which Kirk was about to use to return to the " Enterprise " , along with Scotty ) as being like " " trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet , whilst wearing a blindfold , riding a horse . " " " ( ) " In 2263 of the alternate reality , Lieutenant , upon emphasizing how technologically outmatched the was to Krall ' s myriads of swarm ship s , stated that the " Franklin " was " horse and buggy to those things . " " ( ) In 2267 of the prime reality , after a landing party from the USS " Enterprise " beamed down to the Omicron colony on planet Omicron Ceti III , Lieutenant Sulu noted that they hadn ' t seen any horses nor any other animals . The team later learned that this was because all the animals which the colonist s had brought with them had died from exposure to Berthold ray s on the planet ' s surface . ( ) James T . Kirk ' s uncle owned a farm in Idaho which contained horses . Kirk often rode his uncle ' s horses through the countryside and would often jump over a large chasm , an act which " scared the hell " out of him each time . It was during one of these horseback rides , on a spring day in 2282 , that Kirk met Antonia . ( ) In noting Scott ' s timing with repairing the " Enterprise " just as they reached following the starship ' s battle with the , Captain Kirk remarked that he " fixed the barn door after the horse has come home . " ( ) Captain Picard was fond of horseback riding , and actually had a saddle aboard the . ( ) He also gave a statue of a horse , created in the Chinese Sung Dynasty , as a gift to the Ligonian ruler Lutan in early 2364 . ( ) Although Deanna Troi initially suspected that Picard liked horses for the romance of them , he explained that he , despite not being particularly fond of smaller animals , felt a deeper connection to horses , which led Troi to realize that he did so because he viewed them as companions rather than pets . He clarified that he didn ' t want to anthropomorphise horses or any other animals . Picard also found horse riding could be extremely relaxing . ( ) On the other hand , Picard ' s first officer , William T . Riker , considered his own horsemanship to be notably " rusty " in 2367 . ( ) That year , while the " Enterprise " - D was being pulled along with a cluster of two - dimensional lifeform s into a cosmic string , Deanna Troi told Data , " " Horses sometimes run into a burning barn . " " She said this as a way to verbally demonstrate to him that creatures occasionally move deliberately towards a destructive force , as she believed was happening in the case of the two - dimensional beings and the cosmic string , whereas Data had assumed the alien s were being instinctively but unintentionally drawn towards it . ( ) Captain Picard was so interested in horses that , when Commander Calvin Hudson mentioned horses in 2369 , Picard became immediately fascinated . Though Hudson was dismissing the idea of taking horses to the planet Arkaria ' s southern promontory on account of bad weather , the thought of doing so highly appealed to Picard , so he attempted to obtain his saddle from the " Enterprise " . Even though he found that the saddle came in handy because he was able to throw it at Devor in self - defense , Picard ultimately regretted that he hadn ' t gotten a chance to use it on a horse while the " Enterprise " had been having a baryon sweep . ( ) Later in 2369 , when the imagination s of the Deep Space 9 residents became reality , Julian Bashir created an illusory Jadzia Dax . She recommended to the real Jadzia Dax that she should " get down off [ her ] high horse , " saying that , by doing so , the real Jadzia would begin to appreciate Bashir . ( ) In 2371 , Captain Kathryn Janeway had , in her ready room aboard the USS " Voyager " , a black statue of a horse being ridden by a warrior . ( ) Later the same year , when the crew of " Voyager " discovered a fully functional 1936 Ford truck floating through space in the Delta Quadrant and brought the truck aboard , Captain Janeway identified horse manure on its exterior . ( ) Meanwhile , horses were still being used on Earth . In 2372 , very soon after Captain Benjamin Sisko agreed to sponsor Nog to be considered for recruitment into Red Squad , a primarily light brown horse , with white nose and legs , pulled a carriage through a New Orleans street outside Sisko ' s Creole Kitchen , past a series of buildings whose exteriors were overflowing with flower ing vegetation . At night , the horse was standing in the same area , still attached to its carriage , as Starfleet security officer s began to be beamed into the street and enact martial law . ( ) When Commander Chakotay was briefly connected to the Cooperative in 2373 , a vision of horses running free in a field was included in a series of memories he saw via neuro - transceiver . ( ) The next year , after the holographic was stolen from " Voyager " by a pirate name d , Leonardo ' s , in a city on an alien planet , featured the statue of a horse . ( ) Later that year , the Vic Fontaine hologram likened Julian Bashir and Quark to horses , while they were disappointed to have recently learned that Jadzia Dax was considering having a baby with Worf . Said Fontaine , " " You take one beautiful , happily married filly , add the possibility of her giving birth to a foal , and what ' s that leave you ? A couple of love sick stallions that never got out of the starting gate . " " The solution , in Vic ' s terms , was to " move on to greener pasture s . " ( ) In 2375 , Benjamin Sisko figuratively drew a parallel between ships that General Martok planned to deploy and horses used in cavalry raids . Sisko pointed out this similarity because Martok planned to covertly send the ships behind the Dominion ' s front line s , in the Dominion War , and thereafter do damage to certain key strategic targets , causing chaos for the enemy . ( ) Illusory horses . When the Talosian s captured Christopher Pike and trapped him in their menagerie in 2254 , they recreated his horses , Mary Lou and Tango , in a telepathic illusory scenario involving a picnic on the outskirts of Mojave , Pike ' s hometown . ( ) The pair of illusory horses also appeared in footage of this experience , which was relayed to the " Enterprise " in 2267 . ( ) On the Shore Leave Planet later that year , a black horse was ridden by an armor ed Black Knight who , with a lance , violently charged firstly at Doctor McCoy and then at Kirk and Spock . After Kirk shot the knight off the horse , the animal came to a stop , and the visitors subsequently discovered that these things had been robot ic creations . ( ) In a bizarre and evidently incomplete Melkotian recreation of the Ancient West town of Tombstone , Arizona from 1881 , a brown horse , wearing a saddle , was standing outside the town ' s sheriff office when , in 2268 , a landing party from the USS " Enterprise " arrived in the scenario . The locale also featured the picture of a black horse in a broadside that was on the side of the town ' s saloon . In the illustration , the horse was rearing up on its hind legs , with actress Angela Rossini , skimpily clad , pictured on its back . Additionally , a couple of references to the Clanton gang ' s horse - thieving were made by the illusory occupants of the artificial town ( i . e . , by Wyatt Earp to Ike Clanton , represented by James Kirk , and by to Billy Claiborne , represented by Pavel Chekov ) . Later , a horse , which was mostly brown but had a white nose , was standing at the OK Corral during the battle involving the Clantons and the Earps . When the illusory Earps disappeared after losing the battle , the horse remained behind and the away team found themselves back on the " Enterprise " . ( ) While Kirk was trapped within the Nexus , he rode a horse out of his uncle ' s farm to meet Antonia in an attempt to " do things right from day one . " Captain Picard followed behind on another horse and the two met up with each other . It was only after having no fear when jumping over the familiar chasm that Kirk realized what he was experiencing was not real , and , even though an illusory duplicate of Antonia appeared on a horse of her own , he nevertheless opted to leave the Nexus with Picard . ( ) In the 24th century , program s featuring riding horses were stored on the holodeck on the USS " Enterprise " - D . ( , " et al . " ) For example , an illusory horse that was seemingly hauling a cart passed Data , Geordi La Forge , and Doctor Katherine Pulaski , when they entered the holographic depiction of an 1890s London street in Sherlock Holmes Program 3A , while it was running on the " Enterprise " s holodeck in 2365 . ( ) Later that year , Picard , accompanied on foot by Counselor Deanna Troi , prepared to ride a holographic horse in an " Equestrian Adventure " holoprogram but was interrupted from doing so by a mission undertaken by the " Enterprise " at the Selcundi Drema sector . ( ) In 2367 , Picard invited Riker to another holoprogram that would have involved horses , with them traveling on an ancient trail along the Kabul River in the Himalayas . Politely declining , however , Riker responded that his horsemanship was probably too " rusty " for him to participate . Picard dismissed Riker ' s worries and interjected that they would " program an appropriately docile steed , " but their conversation was then interrupted by momentary detection of something later determined to be a cluster of two - dimensional lifeforms . ( ) Also , as depicted by the " Enterprise " - D ' s holodeck , a photograph of a horse race was on a wall in a San Francisco office belonging to fiction al 1940s private investigator Dixon Hill . ( ) The collection of programs available on the holodeck of the also included " Equestrian Adventure " . ( ) In addition , the holoprogram " Bashir 62 " , which was set in mid - 20th century Las Vegas , included a copy of the " Las Vegas Register " with an article on horse racing in its sport s section , featuring a horse that had remained unbeaten in twenty starts . ( ) Horse racing was additionally referred to by " " , a fictional gambler character who was included in a recreation of a fictional hotel , the Royale , a simulation which was created on planet Theta VIII in 2044 . When Commander Riker , Lieutenant Commander Data , and Lieutenant Worf became trapped in the scenario in 2365 , Data attempted to acquire enough money to buy their way out of the hotel by cheating at craps using a pair of loaded dice . However , " Texas " at one point decided to bet against Data , who replied that he didn ' t believe doing so was a prudent choice . " Texas " replied , " " Hey , that ' s what horse racing ' s about . " " ( ) In a Q - created reenactment of the story of Robin Hood that Picard and some of his crewmembers were unwillingly and unceremoniously placed into in 2367 , a black horse carried Sir Guy of Gisbourne into the outskirts of an illusory Sherwood Forest . The horse snorted as Robin , represented by Picard , and his band of Merry Men , who were actually members of Picard ' s senior staff from the " Enterprise " , ran deeper into the greenwood , fleeing from Sir Guy and his men . Shortly thereafter , the noise of a horse approaching became audible to Picard and his officer s , moments before the animal miraculously appeared ; this horse was white with blue reins and carried Q , who had assumed the role of the High Sheriff of Nottingham , to confront Picard and his team . After Q spoke to them while remaining on the horse ' s back , the animal and its rider miraculously disappeared . ( ) The included two horses into his holographic farm recreation on his array in 2371 . ( ) While Captain Janeway was trapped in the Q Continuum during the Q Civil War in 2373 and the war was being translated into American Civil War imagery to aid her comprehension of the conflict , a horse was led through Colonel ' s encampment shortly before a firing squad was to execute Janeway and Q , a plan that never came to pass and was instead superseded by a cease fire in the Continuum . ( ) A subjective illusion of a horse ' s tail , among various other things , allegedly appeared to the Leonardo da Vinci hologram in early 2374 . He told Captain Janeway about it while it was visible to him , whereas she instead merely saw a wall of his workshop , with candle light reflecting on the wall . ( ) In alien culture . At the monastery at P ' Jem , statues of at least two horse - like animals were included in the decor . ( ) A type of alien horse – blue , with a single on its forehead – could be found on the planet Nimbus III in the 2280s . The army of Sybok used horses to attack Paradise City , as did a Starfleet raiding shortly thereafter . The horses on Nimbus III could be subdued by a Vulcan nerve pinch . ( ) Betazoid s disliked riding because of their ability to feel the thoughts and passions of animals . They feared they would get too much involved in those emotion s and would " lose [ their ] way . " ( ) Horse - like animals native to other worlds include the Andorian Zabathu and Klingon sark . ( ) Sometime prior to 2269 , horses were also used by the Sarpeidon natives , on the planet Sarpeidon , both riding them directly and using them to pull carriages . ( ) There were also horses on the planet Arkaria . ( )