Wraith

A Wraith

A Wraith

The same Wraith as a woman from Archer's imagination

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The Wraiths were a shapeshifting species, native to the planet Dakala. They were hunted by the Eska.

While visiting the planet in 2151, Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise came upon the Eska hunters. One of the Wraiths appeared to Captain Jonathan Archer as a woman he recognized; she had read his mind and taken the form, Archer later realized, of the "glimmering girl" in Yeats's "Song of Wandering Aengus" as he had imagined her when he was a child. She explained that her people were shapeshifters, and the Eskans hunted them using sensors to track them by identifying the Wraiths' chemical signature. Dr. Phlox made a compound that masked their chemical signature concealing them from the hunters and hid them from the Eska's sensors.

Once her people had protected themselves with Phlox's compound, Archer's mysterious friend thanked him and let him see her true serpentine form, commenting to him as she departed that she had taken that form to remind him to never stop searching for what seemed to be unattainable. (ENT: "Rogue Planet")

The unnamed Wraith woman was played by Stephanie Niznik.

The transformed Wraith was a CGI model built by John Teska at Foundation Imaging.(Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 7, p.54)