Teremedosians

The teremedosians are a humanoid species that originate from planet Teremedó. Teremedosians are bipedal primates very similar to humans outside but inside are more powerful. The teremedosians, along with humans, gobolians, and nimbeans and mirians (from Talos system) form the Federation Starfleet.

Origins
Teremedosians and sulibans have a common origin in a remote planet in the Andromeda Galaxy: two remaining sisters of a extinct civilization founded the species. The older sister and vindictive called Sulny founded the Suliban species, and more peaceful called Melny founded the Teremedosian species. Sulny died, and Melny was alone. The ship FEF 08 found Melny in her planet, and captain Groka decides to stay with her, and dies on the planet.

Mind melds
The teremedosians have an ability named "mind meld", a technique for sharing thoughts, experiences, memories, and knowledge with another individual, and it requires physical contact between the noses of the people who perform it. Besides the Teremedosians, Sulibans and at least two Time Lords (Robert and Panda) also possess this ability, however a member of these three species can perform successfully a mind meld with members of most other species. While two or more people are performing a mind meld, the minds of these people become one.

Mind melds are essentially a form of telepathy or direct communication, as during the contact of the noses of two or more individuals, a telepathic bond is established between them. It allows an exchange of thoughts that essentially causes the minds of the participants to merge into one, sharing consciousness to perform a kind of Gestalt therapy.

Mind melds have been used many times by Teremedosians to erase memories, especially by İhi Kadse and 0, although Josep Maria has also performed mind melds with somebody to make them forget something. Josep Maria made a mind meld with Carla's copy serving in the Federation Starfleet (0's wife) before she died to copy her entire mind before the mind disappeared from her physical body after her death. Mind melds can also allow somebody else to access a person's memory and see the experiences and feelings that person has had, and it's sometimes possible to even interact with the memories. During a mind meld all participants can review the memories of one of the participants and all can see what one of them saw or heard, both consciously and unconsciously. For example, if somebody forgets something because they no longer remember it or because they didn't notice it when they saw or heard it, both the mind owner and the guest can navigate through the memories as if they had returned back to the past while they're performing the mind meld, even if the master of the mind doesn't have that ability. It isn't known if there are species that are able to resist mind melds, but it isn't possible to access the positronic brain of androids like Míriam, due to the fact that they're machines and not living beings.

Teremedosians never consider this technique as an intimate thing or part of private life, and couples generally don't use it because they can reach a similar and much deeper and more sentimental bond with a kiss on the lips or other kind of physical contacts. However, 21st century humans are unaware of the existence of such contacts because at this time they're even unaware of the existence of extraterrestrial species, which is why Josep Maria always has problems when he wants to make mind melds just to open up more to them and be able to communicate better with the people he appreciates, receiving a lot of denials when he asks for it, however so far there have been about twenty girls who have agreed to perform a mind meld with him.

While two or more people are performing a mind meld, the minds of these people become one. When a mind meld is interrupted, each individual person may feel in their mind the lack of the other members in the mind meld, suffering from a kind of abstinence syndrome. If the mind meld has been short, the lack may be negligible. But during a long-lasting mind meld, that feeling increases. After a mind meld between two people, each may come to feel an attraction for the other that is usually presented as a mutual inexplicable affection or love between the two people who have performed it, even if neither of them had feelings for each other before. Teremedosians, Sulibans, and Time Lords are used to controlling this effect caused by a mind meld with somebody else, but a member of a species who doesn't possess this ability succumbs more easily to the desire to regain what they "lost" after separating from the other person after the mind meld ended, sometimes confusing this desire as a sexual attraction. 21st century humans, due to not knowing or not believing in the existence of extraterrestrial abilities, find no explanation for what they begin to feel for the other person after they have performed a mind meld, so they suffer from this confusion more often.

Other mental abilities
Specific Teremedosians with a very high mental potential can even have telekinesis (moving objects with the mind) or telepathy, and there have been rare cases of people with an extraordinary mental potential who have managed to use this telekinesis on themselves to even manage to fly. İhi Kadse has this ability and used her flight powers more than once: she's the Teremedosian who was seen more times flying, even in the episode 21 of the third season of Planetes 3rd named "The Creator of the Supercomputer", İhi decided to fly from Madrid to Barcelona to arrive faster at the place where XANA was attacking, and a little girl saw her and told her parents: "Look up there, it's María Isabel flying, I saw her flying through the sky, across the sky!". Luckily, no one paid attention to her or believed her. Also, an alternative version of Josep Maria from a different universe has been seen also having this ability, and in the mirror universe, both Yusma and Lola have flight skills.

Alaktrímeda
Teremedosians also possess the ability to throw or shoot Alaktrímeda: it's about a discharge of electrical energy from the practitioner's hands and is capable of weakening the target of this attack. However, this attack isn't healthy and can even kill, therefore it's prohibited on the entire planet Teremedó (although there have been concrete cases of people who have disobeyed this prohibition). In the mirror universe, Yusma and İhi Kadse used Alaktrímeda to warn the Terran population that they could take control of the Terran Empire if they wanted to, so the Terrans were forced to negotiate with them.