Evora The Evora were a humanoid species of small stature , with a population of three hundred million on their homeworld . A traditional Evoran greeting was " " Yew - cheen chef - faw " " , to which the receiver would respond by placing a bead ed headdress on the greeter ' s head . It was also traditional for them to dance at celebrations . They were inadvertently found to be fond of eating flower s , and apparently enjoyed chrysanthemum s . In 2374 , the Evora achieved warp drive . A year later , they agreed to become a United Federation of Planets protectorate ; the process was expedited as the Federation needed to compensate for its losses from the Battle of Sector 001 and the Dominion War . A welcome reception was held aboard the , attended by Evoran leader Regent Cuzar , who formally met the starship ' s commanding officer , Captain Jean - Luc Picard . ( ) Later in 2375 , two Evora visited Deep Space 9 , shortly after the signing of the treaty that ended the Dominion War . ( ) In 2376 , an Evora who was doing business on the Markonian outpost visited engineering aboard the . ( ) At least one Evora was assimilated by the Borg and became a member of Unimatrix Zero . ( ) Background information . In the script of , the Evora were physically described simply as " extremely short aliens " . This species is not named on screen ; their name was only devised after the making of the film . ( " " , p . 50 ) During the movie ' s development , the species was routinely referred to as " small aliens " , such as in a memo by Unit Production Manager Marty Hornstein and a memo by Michael Piller , the latter of whom worked as Co - Producer on the movie as well as writing its screenplay and co - writing its story in collaboration with Producer Rick Berman . ( " " ) The notion that the Evora were intended to be diminutive aliens obviously affected the selection of the performers who were cast to portray them . " " We used very short people . They were not quite five foot tall , " " noted Make - Up Supervisor Michael Westmore . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 30 , No . 12 , p . 31 ) The make - up design of the Evora was created a relatively long time before its initial " Star Trek " appearance . It was designed by make - up artist Scott Wheeler , a member of Michael Westmore ' s make - up team . Wheeler later recalled , " " I had an idea for an alien that I sculpted a couple of years ago . We made a mold of it and it sort of sat around , and Mike said , ' Eventually we ' ll use it for something when it is appropriate . " " ( " " , p . 14 ) Westmore himself explained , " " I didn ' t want to use it on the series unless something came along that was really good , where it could be used for more than somebody who was just going to be on screen for five minutes . So we held back on it . " " ( " " , p . 50 ) Concluded Wheeler , " " It worked out that this particular head had a good look for this particular character . We sat down and talked about how the face should work with them . " " ( " " , p . 14 ) For " Star Trek : Insurrection " , separate prosthetic head and face pieces for each Evora were devised by Michael Westmore and his team . ( " Cinefex " No . 77 , p . 77 ) Westmore himself observed , " " They have different heads , and a little nose piece on . They almost look a little ' froggy , ' with long ears . " " The make - up staff began applying the make - up by putting it on the film ' s only principal Evora - playing actor , Peggy Miley , and then continued with the rest of the group . ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 30 , No . 12 , p . 31 ) Creating the Evora costumes was perhaps the easiest and certainly the most fun assignment that " Star Trek : Insurrection " Costume Designer Sanja Milkovic Hays had for the film . She made the Evora uniforms extremely wide , to make their wearers seem ever smaller . " " The idea , or rather the joke , was that they were little and Picard has to stand with their regent , so one of the ways to make them look smaller was to make them look wide and in proportion make them even shorter , " " Hays remarked . " " We all felt that they should be far out – too alien . So they are kind of small and their heads are just out there , and the costumes are very geometric . " " The Evora immediately proved extremely popular . Due to this and because they appeared in a scene that was shot early in the production schedule , Hays was initially somewhat concerned that she would be able to match their quality in the film ' s other costumes , but doing so turned out not to be a problem . ( " " , pp . 54 & 53 ) Although Michael Westmore realized Evora could reappear in following their introduction in " Star Trek : Insurrection " , he was careful to wait until after the film ' s theatrical release before bringing them onto space station DS9 . ( " " , p . 50 ) A PADD prop which bore an okudagram entitled the Bartisi Social Protocol from the Federation Sociological Database 2812 . 04 , which only appeared in the film ' s background , revealed that the Evora were referred to as " Bartisi " and their homeworld " Bartisia Prime " . According to this PADD , their system of government was semifeudal democracy with a regent as head of state , and they ranked B Minus on the " Richter scale " . Ninety - seven percent of the population was of the working caste , who elected from the ruling caste the regent and other governing officials . They were first contact ed in 2372 by the , when it was determined that they were on the brink of achieving warp capability . The Federation offered them Federation protectorate status as well as protection from the Dominion in 2375 .