I was reviewing the crew I made for my series and one of my favorite npc's is a Zaldan I made based on the Starfleet Operations Manual. Though a little cheesy on the stats and abilities, I found that race to be extremely refreshing, and I loved that my players had very little knowledge about Zaldans. I love that they can fill the 'social antagonist' role in a different way, while having what could be a really rich culture.
Aside from the race profile in the SOM (Book 3), it is as if the developers decided to forget that they existed, or else the planet exploded prior to Worlds coming out, as Zald (Dolium V) was not listed. As a matter of fact, they didn't even make the cut for Aliens (Book 4). Why would that be? There are dozens of Aliens in the Aliens book I could do without, but I was intrigued by Zaldans and would have loved to read more about them. They were cut. It didn't bother me much at first until I realized the SOM came out before both Aliens and Worlds.
Hell, canon vs non-canon aside, even the Centaurans' story made it into Worlds and Decipher continued to consider them separate from humans, and they didn't make it into Aliens either.
Any web searches of Zaldans that I have done have only yielded Rondon and nothing more. So, since there was very little put out regarding the world of my own favorite creation, I have been working it all up on my own. I can only assume that they were not very well received by fans as a PC or something. It wouldn't be the first time I liked something that nobody else did.
So, anyway, it is late and I tend to rant when it gets this late, but I just wondered if anyone else shared my opinions and if there were any fan-made resources out there, I would love to compare. I still think this race has great potential, even if only in my series.
My best to you all...