A pig-like humanoid species of the planet Galardon in the Galar system, with whom the USS Cerritos carried out second contact in 2380 in the first episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
The Galardonians are stout humanoids with purple skin and snouts who live in a largely agricultural society. They appear in Second Contact, the opening episode of Lower Decks, in which the Cerritos arrives to finish the paperwork after another ship has made first contact.
On the surface Beckett Mariner slips away to give farming equipment to a pair of struggling Galardonian farmers, an unauthorised act that Brad Boimler has been asked to report. Boimler is then seized by one of the farmers' giant spider-like livestock, which sucks on him harmlessly for hours.
A bite that Commander Ransom receives from a local insect spreads a rage virus through the ship. The slime the creature left on Boimler turns out to be the cure.