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I always had a thing for Vulcans and Romulans. It's like Elves... there's something about those pointy ears that make people (read: the fairer sex) so darn attractive...
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I would say Hirogen (since who else would?), but I think I'll really say, Bajoran. Klingon characters eventually show a real strain being Klingon. Ferengi struggle against their own values. But we had a Bajoran (Kira) on screen for seven years, and her values didn't fail her.
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Nobody will agree with me on this one, but I vote for Betazoids. Nothing beats the ability to read another's thoughts. You can anticipate their next moves and understand their motivations.
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No, some of them were brought forward through time, and have been enraging Klingons ever since.
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mph, I was going to put that in lieu of Tribbles ( ), but since johnsonweed did specify "alien" race which seems to imply any race that isn't human, I decided against it.
But if I can put humans, that's my serious answer. I don't particularly like any of the Trek aliens all that much.
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Today I was in a Hallmark store. They had the Christmas ornaments up already.
One that was presented proud and center was a Klingon Bird of Prey.
My thought was, "What a totally anti-Christmas thing to put on your tree. Why don't they offer a Star Trek ship that truly reflects the meaning of Christmas? Where was the Ferengi Merchant Ship anyway?"
I think Vulcan's are my favorite, but that the Ferengi could be made interesting if they were presented a little more like Picard described them in Season One of TNG, and less like Quark without a backbone.
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I have a gorgeous Patrick Stewart photo as my desktop wallpaper at work....
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Oh! I know! It is the Nancy-Monster from the Original Series. She pretends to be McCoy's old girlfriend, Nancy, but in reality she is a salt-sucking monster. If you don't feed her lots and lots of salt tablets, she'll kill you by sucking the salt out of you.
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Vulcans, I find it intruiging that they had to tightly control all their emotions in order to survive and wonder if we'll be in that situation some day.
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Yeah, yeah, all that Vulcan discipline and self-righteousness. But whenever someone is pitching a huge fit and going all nutsy, who is it? The Vulcan. Those dudes need to get down off their high horse and loosen up a bit.
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I love when Picard took Sarek's emotions into himself and for the first time we saw Sarek raw and uncut, as his love for his son and wife poured out.
And when Tuvok merged with a serial killer and nearly lost all control as he conveyed the disgust, rage, and frustration that vulcans have toward arrogant, narrow minded, emotion, short-lived humans.
the Vulcans are cool, especially when you see the storm beneath the calm waves.
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I rather like the Borg, but I also need to put in a secondary vote for the Cardassians, if only for Garek in DS9 and the "There are four lights" epsisode of TNG.
--Enigmatic (must admit he doesn't recognize a few of the races mentioned so far)
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I'll have to go with the Borg too just because it is the first TV villian that actually made me scared for the crew. I hated what they did with them (First Contact is the most annoying movie ever), but they sure started out great. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Since Star Trek TNG, the franchise had a wonderful philosophy, that any enemy could become a friend if treated correctly. The problem is that once you pacify and befriend your enemy, creating an exciting story becomes difficult.
So you have the villainous Klingons going all military noble in Worf and being allies, then you have the mysterious/dreaded Ferengei becoming just cheap merchants and bad theives. Then you have the Romulans going all reunificationally noble, the Borg being Hue'd to friendship, even Q going mellow in several episodes.
It took a lot of work on DS9's part to create an enemy that could not be won over by the vitues of the Federation--the Jem Hadar were scientifically programmed not to be won over.
There were a lot of excellent evil races in the Star Trek Universe, but their whimping out to Federation Normal leave them a bit disappointing.
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I just liked species 8472. Especially in their fake Starfleet Academy, learning how to infiltrate/live among humans. Too bad that storyline was never picked up again.
Instead we got Seven and Chakotay in the holodeck and later stuck on a planet and falling in love. Or a race of people who took an early Starfleet satellite that contained all of human knowledge, misapplied the information and blew themselves up and ruined their planet and somehow its the humans fault. And so it's ok the Lt Kerry got killed needlessly, after 7 years in the Delta Quadrant, since the aliens were justifiably upset with the humans.
Three more Species 8472 episodes would have been much better.
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And IanO, you might better know them as the Romulans (although not as the later series portrayed them). See Diane Duane's series. (And oops, I misspelled. It's Rihannsu.)
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Jeffrey Combs has been just about every single species there IS in the Trek universe. And then some... he's a classic.
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