The humanoid people of Angel I, a society in which women are the larger and stronger sex and hold all power, governed by a council of mistresses under the Elected One.
The natives of Angel I look human but have reversed the usual roles: the women are taller and physically stronger and run the government, while men are decorative, perfumed and expected to defer. Their technology is roughly that of mid-twentieth-century Earth, and the Federation has had only occasional contact with them.
They appear in the Next Generation episode Angel One. The Enterprise comes looking for survivors of the freighter Odin and finds that Ramsey and his men have lived there for seven years, taken local wives and begun to spread ideas of equality.
Beata, the Elected One, takes a liking to Riker but condemns the fugitives and their followers to death as a threat to order. Riker persuades her that executions would only create martyrs, and she exiles them to a remote region instead.