Voyager alien appreciation

[Vandervecken]

Faves? Hirogen for me far and away. Then Vidians and Dvor. But for me, something felt authentically done about the Hirogen. Well thought out. A civilization in decline in a very particular way.

The Vidians own strange predation on other species was ubercreepy and I loved it. The Dvor were a great authentic-feeling police state race, better than nearly any I can remember except maybe the Cardassians.

 

[hux]

I liked the Srivani. Cold, calculating and advanced. The arrogance was also appealing (but that might just be because the two we saw were women).

I also liked the Taresians but that's because I have fantasies about a planet of women who need me to breed with them.

The Hierarchy were a good value comedy hippo species.

The Ventu were very sweet. I enjoyed all that.

 

[Finn]

Dvor?

 

[Vandervecken]

S

Dvor?

Sorry, Devore.

 

[DarKush]

I really used to hate Voyager but one thing I couldn't hate was the aliens. Some of my favorites were Species 8472, Vaadwaur, Vidiians, Hirogen. I also thought The Swarm were neat. The Voth also had potential.

 

[Drone]

I think the Voth society construct was very interestingly thought out and I certainly give them a mulligan from any quarter that might start up a harangue about their evolutionary bona fides. I diid find that the Vidiians were a well realized antagonist, with a compelling backstory that belied their pure deadliness. As mentioned, the Hirogen had a somewhat unusual appeal for a couple of reasons. Their nomadic existence with no home world or countervailing culture, that the former might have provided. Also, as we saw, an evolving realization of the need to reshape the prevailing structure, as some came to see it as an eventual dead end. I found appeal in races we only got a one off view of. Sometimes, depictions of them could be played for laughs, like the Tak Tak, and other times quite the opposite, as the aforementioned Devore, a pretty convincing authoritarian bunch..

 

[Tosk]

I predict the Kazon will be on very few lists.

 

[Vandervecken]

I predict the Kazon will be on very few lists.

Gods what losers. Seska was like, "THIS is what I get to work with?" Right up there with the brilliantly conceived Pacleds. I see an alliance forming, C-grade species unite!

But what, what, what were the designers thinking with that hair?, that's what I want to know. Maybe it was alien effects' idea of subversive performance art? Whole ecologies could have nested. Monsieur Eiffel would have been impressed.

Trek lets the prejudice flag fly free. Never noticed that before.

 

[Tracy Trek]

I liked the Srivani. Cold, calculating and advanced. The arrogance was also appealing (but that might just be because the two we saw were women).

I also liked the Taresians but that's because I have fantasies about a planet of women who need me to breed with them.

The Hierarchy were a good value comedy hippo species.

The Ventu were very sweet. I enjoyed all that.

Were the Srivani the ones that turned the crew into lab rats?

Um, you do recall what happened to those men when the women were through with them?

I think the Voth were interesting.

 

[hux]

Were the Srivani the ones that turned the crew into lab rats?

Yup.

Um, you do recall what happened to those men when the women were through with them?

What better way to go?

 

[Lynx]

I actually like the Kazon. Culluh and Seska were great villains.

I also likethe Ocampa, the Talaxians, the Voth, the Vori, the Kradin and some more.

Not to mention the fascinating aliens in the Voyager seasons 1-3 books, like the Hachai,the P'nr, the Alcawellians, the Kirse, the Andirrim and some more.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I was disappointed the Dragon's Teeth aliens never came back.

I think the Hirogen needed a little more depth to their society to be interesting. An entire society devoted just to murdering people for fun just isn't that interesting.

I liked the Vidians. I would have liked to see a story about what happened to them after they were cured in Think Tank.

 

[tomalak301]

I loved the Vidians. They were frightening and very interesting. It's a shame the Phage was cured off screen but I understood why.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I figure it was cured off screen because they just needed to figure out something for the audience to recognize to prove the think tank was smart. But it's a shame we never saw them try to rebuild their society after, bearing the guilt of having spent the last few decades surviving by killing innocent people.

 

[Drone]

Yup.
What better way to go?

Not to get too personal, but wouldn't you, uh, chafe at the very short duration of bliss before being transformed into a husk? From my viewpoint, it comes across like a case of PE, but with no hope of ridding oneself of it with one of those custom blend medication treatments one hears advertised on the radio so much in these parts.

 

[tomalak301]

I figure it was cured off screen because they just needed to figure out something for the audience to recognize to prove the think tank was smart. But it's a shame we never saw them try to rebuild their society after, bearing the guilt of having spent the last few decades surviving by killing innocent people.

Why not civilizing the Kazon than. At least we got s lot with the Kazon and with the death of Sesko it might have been nice to get an update on Callah and the baby. The ending of the Vidian phage deserved better. Maybe that's what Fury could have been about instead of bringing back Kes.