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==Behind the Scenes== *The K'Nes are inspired in small part by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kzin Kzinti] from the writings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven Larry Niven], but mostly they are around for comic relief. *Their name is probably a variation on K'Nex, the shoe brand, but also from the need to put an apostrophe in the middle of a word to make it sound more alien. *The uber-capitalist culture of the K'Nes was partially inspired by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi Ferengi ]from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.] *Storyteller Marcus Johnston (who created the species) originally envisioned K'Nes as spending their entire lives floating in the air, and looking like a cross between a lion and a blimp.<span style=""> </span>In season 4.3, however, player Frank D'Antuono portrayed the K'Nes as looking like panthers and walking on all fours on the ground.<span style=""> </span>This prompted player Ed Stasheff in season 9 to explain away this apparent inconsistency by establishing that K'Nes can inflate and deflate at will, as well as coming up with a semi-plausible explanation of how that was biologically possible. [[Category:Sentient Races]]
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