Does Star Trek have the best alien races?

[Krystal]

Definitely, personally I think they have the best aliens because they have diversed races each one with unique history and personalities.

Krystal

 

[Neo]

Cheers Krystal......

 

[BONNIESTACKPOLE]

CRANIAL RIDGES

I totally agree with you on the ridges. I'm sick of ridges! No imagination as far a alian looks. But they definatly have the best alians as far as culture goes. Vulcans and Klingons seem like just another race to me now. I can look at Worf and not see him as alian looking or thinking of him as an alian. But I do think that Spock is the best alian of all time. :alienooh:

 

[Neo]

What u like about spock ???

 

[BONNIESTACKPOLE]

SPOCK I think, is the first really believable alian on tv. Before him, they were monsters or comic charactors. Spock was the first to seem like he was real, and likable. His was the first alian culture people embraced to the point of thinking of vulcans as if they were a real people. Who on the planet that has a tv doesn't know who he is, or what "live long and prosper" means? He is a complete, complex charactor. There have been others after him, but Spock led the way. :alienooh:

 

[Neo]

Still is now.... he has been mentioned in all the series

 

[markpud]

u'll have 2 remind me when was he mentioned in ds9/voy??

 

[Dave]

DS9 easy -- 'Trials and Tribbleations' the Jadzia Dax/ Sisko "Is that Him?" scene.

VOY -- don't know!

 

[markpud]

doh...the DS9 one was easy

 

[Shaun]

He was mentioned in "Endgame" when Tuvok quoted him. And I think he was mentioned in "Flashback" and a few others in relation to Tuvoks past.

 

[Neo]

thank you... answered the question for me

 

[grunge_rocker]

Trek aliens vs. SG aliens

I happen to think that Star Trek has the very best aliens of all time, at least as far as looks go. It's true that Star Wars has some very authentic, original kinds of creatures, but I'm a huge fan of more "human-oid" peoples for some reason. There are so many of them, ranging from the Klingons to the Vulcans to the Malon. Babylon 5 is also known to do this, only usually with more effort placed upon the creation of their species, make-up-wise.
I don't mind the ridges, I think they add variety. I mean, ask yourself why so many fans of StarGate SG-1 watch that show (not to put down a truly excellent sci-fi masterpiece in the making, since I watch it and love it myself!)? In SG-1, though, there are no "species" such as Cardassians. Rather, almost everybody in that show aside from Asgard and a few others are all members of the Caucasian group of the human species (Teal'c accounted for)... regardless of what planet they came from. But SG-1 does do a magnificent job culturally-speaking.

 

[ray gower]

But why do aliens have to be ordinary human type humanoids, variations of pastry cutouts on bonce included?

Nature is far more inventive than that!

With some 500 million species of insect on this planet and the fact that mamallian humanoids (humans) only have a few million years of history the Earth makes us more of a statistical anomally caused by astronomical accident.

The humanoid shape: one head, two arms, two legs is quite efficient and adaptable, but it can't be limited to humans, can it?

 

[Darth Simpson]

I'd have to agree. For far too long many sci-fi series including Trek have portrayed stereo-typical humanoid aliens who, after a while, all look the same.

Finally in series three enterprise they have begun to experiment with more obscure aliens like the ones seen on the Xindi council (the one floating in water comes to mind). I guess the key really is the C.G.I they are using to do this. They only really began to play with this in DS9 occasionally and later in Voyager several times, culminating in Species 8472. Interestingly as technology changes, most sci-fi changes with it.

I guess at the end of the day it all comes down to money.