Large, shaggy predators of the ice world Delta Vega in the alternate reality, one of which chases James Kirk across the snow in the 2009 film Star Trek before being taken by a hengrauggi.
The drakoulias is a powerful four-legged carnivore with thick pale fur, a heavy head and a wide fanged mouth, suited to the blizzards of Delta Vega. It is fast over open snow and is big enough to treat a lone human as prey.
It appears in the 2009 film Star Trek. Marooned on Delta Vega by the acting captain Spock, Kirk leaves his escape pod to walk to the Starfleet outpost and is spotted by a drakoulias, which charges out of the storm and runs him down.
Before it can reach him, a far larger hengrauggi erupts from under the ice, grabs the drakoulias in its jaws and throws it away, then turns on Kirk itself. Like its rival, the animal is named only in production material and not in dialogue.