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Aliens We’ve Never Seen

Frightscape One said:
Cool idea for a thread. I've only been able to glance at a few posts and your list.

One thing... we've already seen Kobheerians.

In "DUET", the captain of that Kobheerian freighter was on screen in Ops. Also, in "DEFIANT", a fake projection of a Kobheerian was used while Sisko was talking to the Cardassian Gul.


I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but how about the real versions of the Ux-Mal from TNG's "Power Play"?

We don't know what their true form looks like, as these were prisoners sentenced to that moon.
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Thanks for the reminder, I had to look some stuff up. The fake projection was in “Second Skin,” and it was of the same ship (the Rak-Miunis) and captain (Viterian) from “Duet” that we mentioned upthread. Sisko could have been using the Dopterian captain and Kobheerian ship because they would check out upon some scrutiny.

What makes less sense is that the ship was described as a Federation vessel in “Duet” yet was pretended to be running weapons ore for the Central Command to Cardassia Prime in “Second Skin.”

Maybe like the Ktarians (seemingly enemies in “The Game,” then presented as Federation members) there’s more to the Kobheerians than we might at first think.

The Ux-Mal from “Power Play” are a good one. I’ll add them to the list above!
 
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Arpy said:
I was wondering about how I’d do some of the potential non-humanoids on the list above and I’m looking at the Kurlans. the closest clue to their appearance that we have is the Kurlan naiskos, and I’m wondering…are they crustaceans? Kind of an armored head on a squat body with limbs and tail folding around them at rest.
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~ At first glance, the naiskos looks rather like a duck. A longer look has me thinking that it's just the head & shoulders of whatever lifeform it's based on (like a bust). However, I quite like your crustation idea :bolian:
 
It could very well be a bust…if a rather strange one…what exactly are they wearing…but it could also not be one, and in fact be something similar to primitive statues from any number of different cultures here on Earth, roughly representing a full body. That would be more interesting to me for the purposes of this thread -- the possibility of more diverse lifeforms.

EDIT: If someone creates a really cool-looking Kurlan that is humanoid, that's fine by me -- I like really cool stuff. On the head that could be a beak (@Cyfa duck-men!), or a knight's armor-like mask (whether for defense or fashion), or strange alien folds like we've seen on the Megarites from TMP for example.
 
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Arpy said:
There’s a lot of stuff like, say, “Altair water” that McCoy ordered at a bar in Star Trek III. There is an Altair system but we don’t know if there are intelligent native aliens called “Altairians” that evolved there. Same thing with other foods, animals, fabrics, and whatnot that might come from or are named after a star/planet but that we have no word on people from it.
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I personally, based on sort of implied talk, soft canon like books which newer shows sometimes pull some, have made the assumption that the "purple people" we in Lower Decks and TOS/Movies are Altairians, what some people call "Volis' Species" or "Violaceans"
 
At least three non-humanoids in this week’s Lower Decks. (More if you count animal life.) Including an Edosian, another triped species, and a snakelike species.

One of the perks of animation. Among others also previously seen on Lower Decks a Nasat, Kzinti, Caitians, Edosians, Aurellians, (all from TAS), and Ariolo (from TVH).
 
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Fourth non humanoid from this week’s episode. I wonder if their creators have names or backstories for them, or if they could be one of the species we came up with earlier. Could this be a Tyrellian or an Alcyone or a Tzenkethi or…?
 
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Adding the Camorites of Camor V, home of Picard’s almost son Jason Vigo from the season 7 TNG episode “Bloodlines,” to the list.

Their life signs were distinguishable from humans from orbit, there were only 7 humans on the entire planet/continent, and the population was badly effected by the earlier Cardassian War (leading up to the treaty the Maquis took issue with), leaving countless orphans behind on a planet without public order and on which street gangs to operated in open daylight.

Vigo did refer to men and women boys and girls, but were they Camorites themselves or other aliens like him on the planet? Or are those just colloquial terms for males and females, young and old, of many species?

Not a solid addition but a viable one for the time being.
 
Doing a VOYAGER rewatch and finished "Prime Factors" not long ago. The Sikarians "imported a delicate fabric from Dedestris spun from the petals of a flower that only bloomed in moonlight." It's unclear whether Dedestris was a colony world of Sikaris or one that, like Alastria (where Harry Kim is whisked off to on a date), is simply one within easy reach of their spatial trajector device. The name makes it sound (again, like Alastria) Sikarian, but that could simply be their name for it. I'm inclined to think of it as Sikarian, but it could easily go either way, especially given how easygoing the Sikarians are with aliens. Adding it to the list with an asterisk.
 
One thing about the Sikarian transport... they had to get to those planets first to put a transport pad onto the surface.

So it makes wonder how old that civilization is, considering Alastria was 40,000 lights years away.
 
Farscape One said:
One thing about the Sikarian transport... they had to get to those planets first to put a transport pad onto the surface.

So it makes wonder how old that civilization is, considering Alastria was 40,000 lights years away.
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“Hey, you, take this, go that way…”

Yeah, it would be a lot easier if alien Dedestrians met them halfway. Though I’m not sure you need the other platform. They gave Voyager the tech to catapult them 40k ly, but would the ship have materialized above a platform in space? The Borg version of the technology sent Picard and Soji to Nepenthe’s woods, no platform. My guess is that for roundtrips they send the first group out with a platform to install at the outset.

A lot of non humanoids in this first season btw:
1. The Nacene (Caretaker’s species),
2. the not quite a nebula alien being from “The Cloud,”
3. the continuing-after-death-energy of the Vhnori from “Emamations,”
4. the photonic lifeforms/Grendel from “Heroes and Demons,” and
5. the non corporeal Komar living in the dark matter nebula in “Cathexis,” to name some.

Far out, man.
 
Arpy said:
“Hey, you, take this, go that way…”

Yeah, it would be a lot easier if alien Dedestrians met them halfway. Though I’m not sure you need the other platform. They gave Voyager the tech to catapult them 40k ly, but would the ship have materialized above a platform in space? The Borg version of the technology sent Picard and Soji to Nepenthe’s woods, no platform. My guess is that for roundtrips they send the first group out with a platform to install at the outset.

A lot of non humanoids in this first season btw:
1. The Nacene (Caretaker’s species),
2. the not quite a nebula alien being from “The Cloud,”
3. the continuing-after-death-energy of the Vhnori from “Emamations,”
4. the photonic lifeforms/Grendel from “Heroes and Demons,” and
5. the non corporeal Komar living in the dark matter nebula in “Cathexis,” to name some.

Far out, man.
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Also non-humanoid from season 1 (produced episodes in season 1, so I count them as such)...
"ELOGIUM" - the space dwelling lifeforms.
"TWISTED" - the subspace twisting phenomenon was sentient, as it downloaded a huge library into the ship's computer after it went away.

It's part of why I think the first season of VOY is far better than most people say. It really gave a sense of being different than the Gamma Quadrant. (In fact, until SNW and LDS came along, I put it as the best first season of all after TOS.)


Regarding the Sikarians...
Fair point about the Spatial Trajector. Maybe they just sent ships out and put those platforms on the planets for people to travel to. That does leave the question of how did they get back, since a ship needed the giant amplification of the planet itself.
 
VOY's "Heroes and Demons": Chakotay tells Tuvok that "the Vok'sha of Rakella Prime believe that hate is a beast which lives inside the stomach."
 
VOY's "Learning Curve": Crewman Chell wears a pendant of Kazleti design.

An RPG has imagined them as humanoids with different factions both Federation members and prominent Klingon subjects.
 
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