Character Star Trek: Lower Decks · 2381

Narj

Plant-like keeper of a space menagerie

The tree-like curator of Narj's Miraculous Menagerie, an alien zoo whose human exhibits bring Jack Ransom and Beckett Mariner aboard in the Lower Decks episode I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee.

Narj is a botanical life form, resembling a small walking tree, who owns and runs Narj's Miraculous Menagerie. He appears in the fourth-season Lower Decks episode I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee, when Starfleet learns that two humans are among his exhibits and sends an away team from the Cerritos to have them freed.
Narj proves perfectly reasonable and agrees to let the pair go. The visit goes wrong when Moopsy, a deceptively sweet animal that drinks bones, escapes from its cage. Ensign Gary is quick to accuse the curator, and Narj himself is swallowed by the creature during the chase that follows.
Commander Ransom and Lieutenant Mariner recapture Moopsy, and the breakout turns out to have less to do with Narj than with the humans he had been keeping.