Salt Creature!!

[Captain Pike]

Sorry if this has already been posted. I had a cursory look around for it but it's not on the first couple of pages as far as I can see.

Check out the "Aliens" feature on the special features disk of the blu-ray and you will see an updated version of the Salt Monster (as seen in the TOS episode The Man Trap) at about 13:21. It appears to have been a background alien in the Rura Penthe scene which was cut!

Anyone else noticed this?

So f'ing cool. Damn I wish that had of been included in the final cut.

There is actually a picture of the creature and an accompanying article here.

Once again, sorry if this has already been mentioned, I just thought it was so damn cool..

 

[JuanBolio]

That IS pretty damn cool. Thanks for posting. Abrams sure did work in a lot of winks and nods, even if some of them didn't make the final cut.

 

[RAMA]

Oh neat!

 

[urbandk]

Wow, that salt creature looks sinister.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Very cool. From looking at the photos that we've been seeing lately, there were a lot more aliens than what we saw on camera...which was a complaint by many of us. Hopefully we will see more in the next film.

 

[M'Sharak]

There is actually a picture of the creature and an accompanying article here.

Once again, sorry if this has already been mentioned, I just thought it was so damn cool..

The picture was included in a Flickr photostream linked here some time back, but I don't think we've seen the article before, so that's cool.

 

[Kegg]

I always felt the Salt Vampire was one of the coolest - if not the coolest - alien design from the original series. It managed to look so monstrous yet sad and mournful at the same time, and were one of the full fully 'suited' alien races. I'd considered it something of a pity they could never cameo because of the inconveinent little fact they'd been wiped out, but hey, alternate timeline!

Here's hoping that this costume makes its way to the silver screen eventually in some background scene.

 

[gastrof]

...Check out the "Aliens" feature on the special features disk of the blu-ray and you will see an updated version of the Salt Monster (as seen in the TOS episode The Man Trap) at about 13:21. It appears to have been a background alien in the Rura Penthe scene which was cut!...

I'm so glad that along with all the other "exciting changes" JJ deemed as necessary, he included taking one of the last members of a nearly extinct sentient species, and dropping them off at a Klingon penal colony, which as we all know usually serves to prolong one's life considerably.

 

[MvRojo]

Cool, although it almost looks more like disfigured Vina than the Salt Vampire.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I just watched the Aliens section of the DVD tonight and I sure did notice that salt monster!!!! Very cool.

 

[cooleddie74]

VERY creepy and effective update of the old makeup! Wow!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Since we are talking about the Salt Monster why was there a dead one in The Squire of Gothos?

 

[Maurice]

I'm so glad that along with all the other "exciting changes" JJ deemed as necessary, he included taking one of the last members of a nearly extinct sentient species, and dropping them off at a Klingon penal colony, which as we all know usually serves to prolong one's life considerably.

Do you LOOK for things to complain about? It's a flipping in-joke/homage.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm so glad that along with all the other "exciting changes" JJ deemed as necessary, he included taking one of the last members of a nearly extinct sentient species, and dropping them off at a Klingon penal colony, which as we all know usually serves to prolong one's life considerably.

Do you LOOK for things to complain about? It's a flipping in-joke/homage.

True but Gastrof has a point. I forgot the Salt Monster was the last of her kind. Having one turn up on Rura Penthe is kind of lame.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I forgot the Salt Monster was the last of her kind. Having one turn up on Rura Penthe is kind of lame.

The species was the last of its kind in "The Man Trap", but there was a stuffed one in "The Squire of Gothos".

Some species of animals on Earth are thought to be extinct, then rediscovered!

Then there's:
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Yridian

At some point before the 2360s, the Federation believed that the Yridian race went extinct. This disappearance was so total that it even convinced the Borg, who designate the Yridians as Species 6291, that the species was no longer in existence. However, Rudolph Ransom, a Starfleet exobiologist, discovered that there were some still alive and carried out first contact. For this he was awarded the post of captain of the USS Equinox. (VOY: "Equinox")

The strange extinction of the Yridians can be explained by assuming that some natural (or unnatural) disaster befell the race sometime between the 2150s and the 2360s. It is possible that the group later encountered by Captain Ransom had not had previous contact with humanity and therefore counted as a true first contact. Presumably the numbers of Yridians are still very low.

After this point Yridians were encountered throughout Federation space.

 

[Myasishchev]

I always felt the Salt Vampire was one of the coolest - if not the coolest - alien design from the original series. It managed to look so monstrous yet sad and mournful at the same time.

I'd be sad and mournful too if all I needed was some damned sodium chloride and no one had the bright idea to just give me a salt shaker.

 

[trekkier]

the link doesnt work anymore, anybody save a picture of it?

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Hopefully, the Salt Vampire will appear as part of a Rogues Gallery of Kirk's greatest enemies across time, forming a Council of Evil to get even with him.

Malcom McDowell, the ring leader, using the Nexus to assemble Kirk's enemies.
Iman as Martia the chameloid
Antonio Banderas as KHAAAAN!!
Christopher Lloyd as Kruge
George Murdock as (Not) God

And yeah, SHATNER returns to save his young self.