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Coolest Alien Species!
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Haha don't worry my friend im sure your not the only one.
Tossup between Klingons and Cardassians for me. Klingons make good baddies and entertaining allies. Cardassians are interesting because they always have me guessing about their motives. Just when I think I understand them they do something that throws me for a loop.
In my opinion the Cardassians are a bit more badass than the Klingons. They have a good balance between intellectuals and ruthless warriors, versus being primarily barbaric like the Klingons. However, I definitely agree with your posted statement regarding Klingons being entertaining. Haha, always.
Enterprise's main achievement: the Andorians. Then again maybe the Vorta. Then again maybe any species largely played by Jeffrey Combs.
Yep. Especially Brunt FCA. I like the DS9 Ferengi, but not the TNG Ferengi.
Brunt was genius-level acting. Actors aren't cast against their ranges usually, and really only the best can pull it off. Sometimes even the best fail: look at Sam Jackson in Kingsman: The Secret Service. Just didn't work, seemed forced and just childish (but he can deliver a monster performance: Elijah (Mr. Glass) in Unbreakable--but more along his usual acting range of earnest angry nuttiness).
But Jeffrey Combs showed that he's perfectly comfortable outside his usual range--Brunt was nowhere along the spectrum of scene-stealing intensity you get from Weyoun to Shran to, eventually, Herbert West. He had to channel all that juice somewhere, though, and he did, perfectly: into quiet, predatory, oh-shit-it's-the-government.
Yeah, they're two different types of scary. The scary thing about Klingons as baddies is they're really hard to reason with due to their lust for a fight and the fact that they're not just willing to die in battle, but it's what they want more than anything else. The only thing they really seem to care about besides their honorable deaths, and what probably keeps them from being unnecessarily suicidal, is their desire to preserve/expand the Empire. Most of the time at least, as apparently many Klingons were unhappy with the alliance with the Federation and thought they should have continued fighting even if it meant their extinction. I'd be more scared about facing the Cardassians as a broad threat, but I'd rather come across a single Cardassian ship than a Klingon ship.
I've always been impressed with both Combs and Armin Shimers ability to play multiple on screen characters so convincingly within the same show and universe without it feeling completely wrong or breaking suspension of disbelief. They work within the makeup so well.
Re: Sam Jackson, heck his Kingsman performance was oscar worthy compared to his role as "The Octopus" in The Spirit.
In terms purely of design I'd have to go with Species 8472. It was something that looked truly alien and not just like a human with a bumpy forehead. As for society and characters then I would far and away have to go with the Cardassians. They kept up the tradition of aliens civilizations defined by one or two characteristics (patriotism and family), but each character had a different idea of what that patriotism meant and how they should carry out their duty. Even a lot of the single episode Cardassians left a strong mark (Macet, Marritza, Madred).
Ummm the Borg? Absolutely terrifying, cold, calculated, inhuman, totally different than anything introduced before them. No personality. No negotiating (unless you happen to be Katherine Janeway). So bad.
The Trill. You've got one identity that's practically immortal living inside a humanoid host and changing hosts when the hosts pass on. What a wealth of different experiences.
The Voth. Because they are intelligent dinosaurs. I would have loved seeing more about them.
Another favorite is not from the shows or movies but from the novels. The alien K'tl'k from Wounded Sky. I think her species was called Hamalki. They were crystalline spiders. I think that's rather cool.
The Voth. Because they are intelligent dinosaurs. I would have loved seeing more about them.
Another favorite is not from the shows or movies but from the novels. The alien K'tl'k from Wounded Sky. I think her species was called Hamalki. They were crystalline spiders. I think that's rather cool.
TNG era Borg, no negotiations, they have the more advanced technology, they appear, state their demands and if you don't obey, they attack and assimilate. Simple horror species. Even if you do obey, things won't get much better...
It's a different thing if the Borg is the coolest though... scariest definitely.
Vulcans, except as they were described and portrayed in ENT. Sarek, Spock and Tuvok are my favourites, but their race was its coolest up to and including STAR TREK III: The Search for Spock. They were very exotic and mysterious ... even the Vulcan planet was. I liked that about them. Then ENT had to go and spoil all my Vulcanian fun ... but ... that's another story.
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