physically the strongest species?

[Saito S]

^most topics and questions in the trek forums have been discussed often. That's why many long time posters don't post in the trek forums anymore.

As for the remark, it was in jest, because it has been asked often. I dont always make serious remarks in the trek forums, like the one about Mulgrew being in First Contact.

Eh, fair enough. Pardon my wording; I realized long after posting that it sounded pretty irritated, more than I really meant it to.

 

[Kinggodzillak]

Kira never got into any fights with Klingons - let alone beat any up - while pregnant.

No, that definitely didn't happen. She took out an entire corridor of Starfleet and Bajoran security guards while pregnant, but never any Klingons. But only because there would be no Klingon brave enough to take her on.

After all, according to Worf no-one has ever seen what a Breen looks like under their suit and lived to speak of it, not even a Klingon. Kira has not only seen it and lived to tell the tale, she's gone back for more several years later. Even when pregnant that's not someone the Klingons are prepared to mess with...

 

[Arpy]

Another vote for Vulcans. Spock bent metal often enough in TOS, and he tossed Kirk around like a rag-doll in ST:V. I imagine ancient Vulcan was a terrifying place, both for their dangerous emotions and physical domination.

I think it also adds to the grandeur of these contemporary Vulcans, how powerful they are yet reserved.

Technically though, the Founders should have made the Jem-Hadar as to Vulcans as they are to humans. They should be able to take down Federation battle droids by hand. Of course there are no Federation droids - they just send people to kill each other using 16th century methods.

Damn, forgot about the Changelings. Given that Odo turned his arms into metal vices, I'm going to say Changelings - if you get them in the right form.

 

[cwl]

yeah changelings depending on form I guess.

 

[Deckerd]

Thanks to the random, scattershot way evolution works, humans, mammals or vertebrates are hardly the ultimate in how to wrestle strength out of a kilogram of muscle tissue. Evolution on other planets could easily have come up with muscle cells that are fifty times more efficient than ours, or fifty times less so, and built the local species around those.

And yet they all evolved in magically the same gravity range and breathe the same gas mix as we do. If you're writing a science fiction series where the aliens are clearly the same size, it's an insult to magically have the other aliens stronger than humans as a matter of course. Stargate SG1 at least had the really strong, long-lived races as either genetically and technically manipulated or realistically bigger than people.

 

[Deimos Anomaly]

Some of the extinct strains of humans (Neanderthal for example) were supposedly quite a bit stronger than the current model, but look about the same size in the reconstructions you always see.

 

[cwl]

neandarthal was physically taller and bulkier than us. apparently our superior intelligence enabled us to craft better tools and enabled us to communicate better.

 

[Infern0]

Hirogen would be way up there

 

[Jetfire]

Doesn't Data process the strength of 10 men? Aren't androids in the Trek universe generally pretty strong?

 

[cwl]

Data is the only guy on the Enterprise that can break Worfs arm or something.