For example the ferengi and borg showed up briefly in enterprise without being named. Could that happen in Discovery?
Is anyone hoping for alien species that showed up in VOY, DS9, and next generation?
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I think they should avoid the mistakes ENT made and only use species that where known at the time. However, as most species where never brought up, there is plenty of room to add new ones.
I think Trill could be cool considering Dax knew Bones. Cardassians are interesting as they are name checked in '09 in the Kelvin timeline.
True, and I wouldn't really mind if they showed up. It was never really established when they were first contacted anyway as far as I know. Bolians and Yridians would be other good candidates for inclusion, I think. If anybody from the Gamma or Delta quadrants showed up, it would definitely be a problem, but the odds of that are probably quite low.
Agreed. But the galaxy is so big we don't have to see them all. It can make the "world" feel small. But then it does bring in question how large the Vulcans loom as the goto "elves" of the Star Trek mythos.
I'd be interested in seeing the Bajorans--there isn't anything canon-wise about when the Federation first meets them, and it would be interesting to see that first contact.
But, as others have said, space is so vast there's plenty of room in Discovery to see new species we've never had on screen before.
But, as others have said, space is so vast there's plenty of room in Discovery to see new species we've never had on screen before.
Sure, if the timeline splits or something equally crazy. "Masked cameos" like the Ferengi in ENT don't appeal much to me though.
We've never even met most of the 150 ish alien species that are mentioned as being in the Federation by the 24th Century. So there are plenty of species to meet w/o mining the ones not even encountered until the 24th Cent. If they decide to have one in anyway, the Borg. Enterprise established a way for them to be involved pretty easily. That's especially true if they decide to say that the events of ST:FC established a changed timeline and subsequent history with the Borg will happen differently.
I want to see some Pakleds.
Definitely no Borg, Ferengi or Cardassians. I want to see many more new and wonderful aliens, as well as revisiting those right for the time period as well.
I'd have preferred no Klingons on that list as well, but what can you do?
I'd have preferred no Klingons on that list as well, but what can you do?
There will likely be some - but they'll probably he as different from how they used to look as the Klingons are.
No Ferengi. No Borg. No Romulans. Almost everyone else is fair game.
Basicly this. Cardassians I don't mind at all. We never really did know when first contact with them happened, so for all we know we can see that happen in Discovery. Andorians and Tellarites are species I'd love to explore a bit more. But mostly, I really really want to see new and exciting aliens.
Why is this brought up every time there is a new ST series there? I don't really see why. Most of the time it's pretty badly done too. Obviously some races could be explored(like founding members as Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites and the already confirmed Klingons) but they should be able to discover their own bunch, not be a subset of any former series. That said, I'm not they type of guy who would say "hey we didn't see them in TOS so they can't be there!". They could, for example bring up on occasion a couple of the species they met during ENT's run to see how things went for them, though it's not necessary.
Does one think that of all the hundred/thousand ships in Starfleet and all those 5-year or whatever timeframe missions(depending on era) those had they all just happened to bump into the same group of aliens time and again? In a practically(for the purposes of a series with max 100 eps that don't all deal with meeting new races) endless galaxy with billions of stars/planets?
Let's assume for the purposes of this discussion, that each person on Earth was a different race representing a different planet. Randomly make trips to different cities around the globe "exploring" them. Don't go to the popular ones either, but those few people(or none even) in your immediate environment know about. How possible is it to meet the same core of, say, 100 people in say 1000 trips?
Considering there are like 250 billion estimated stars and we don't know how many of them could support life of some kind.(obviously there are 4 quadrants so 250/4 roughly, but freak accidents and stellar phenomena might lead to Starfleet/Alien Organizations from other quadrants vessels to "get stranded/teleported in unknown territory they shouldn't have access to" and as is known through established Trek this tends to happen quite often in TrekVerse(given we follow only a handful of ships/crew and these occur more often than not and in fact was the plot of an entire series).
Does one think that of all the hundred/thousand ships in Starfleet and all those 5-year or whatever timeframe missions(depending on era) those had they all just happened to bump into the same group of aliens time and again? In a practically(for the purposes of a series with max 100 eps that don't all deal with meeting new races) endless galaxy with billions of stars/planets?
Let's assume for the purposes of this discussion, that each person on Earth was a different race representing a different planet. Randomly make trips to different cities around the globe "exploring" them. Don't go to the popular ones either, but those few people(or none even) in your immediate environment know about. How possible is it to meet the same core of, say, 100 people in say 1000 trips?
Considering there are like 250 billion estimated stars and we don't know how many of them could support life of some kind.(obviously there are 4 quadrants so 250/4 roughly, but freak accidents and stellar phenomena might lead to Starfleet/Alien Organizations from other quadrants vessels to "get stranded/teleported in unknown territory they shouldn't have access to" and as is known through established Trek this tends to happen quite often in TrekVerse(given we follow only a handful of ships/crew and these occur more often than not and in fact was the plot of an entire series).
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Heck yes! Hopefully no Klingons though... They don't need to be in EVERYTHING. There can't be Borg because they're still too far away. Anything else would be fine by me.
There will probably be Romulans at some point anyway-They will choose aliens for brand recognition...basically, the aliens that everyone has heard of. The rest will be new ones.
My personal request would be Tholians. They're not humanoid, super dangerous, super secretive, and have their hands in all sorts of evil interdimensional timey wimey stuff.
There will probably be Romulans at some point anyway-They will choose aliens for brand recognition...basically, the aliens that everyone has heard of. The rest will be new ones.
My personal request would be Tholians. They're not humanoid, super dangerous, super secretive, and have their hands in all sorts of evil interdimensional timey wimey stuff.
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