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[RyuRoots]

Before they got neutered by In the Flesh, that is. I loved them, and thought they were a great, unique enemy that was something distinctly Voyager. A foe every bit as implacable as the Borg, but much more personal. I was curious how they'd be used in the future after Prey, and...well...

 

[You_Guyz]

Chakotay kissed a species 8472....nuff said.

 

[Praxius]

Chakotay kissed a species 8472....nuff said.

Kinda makes you wonder if they have wet dreams in fluidic space

Added:

Yet, in order to have more stories with 8472, one would need to have the previous time line still in existence..... or to skip the new time line forward to an era when the federation or at the least the borg meet up with them again.

 

[tomalak301]

Who didn't like 8472 pre- In the Flesh. Heck, I even liked them in In the Flesh and wish they would have returned.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

They were pretty cool.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

They're one of my favorite alien species in Voyager next to the Hirogen...

The Vaaduar (sp?) were pretty interesting as were the alien species that stole organs from passerby...{I forget the name}...

 

[LeadHead]

Liked 8472, kinda wish they had been Voyager's main recurring baddies instead of The Borg.

 

[Pemmer Harge]

Been a while since I saw the episodes, but as I recall they were pretty cool.

 

[Anwar]

Liked 8472, kinda wish they had been Voyager's main recurring baddies instead of The Borg.

But how would they have managed to fight and survive constant attacks from aliens more powerful than the Borg, when all they had was one ship on its own? They couldn't do a "Delta Federation" story, it would cost too much.

Granted, the fandom would have been less PO'ed over VOY's enemy being their own creation and not one from another show but still...

 

[Voyagerian]

I definitely liked this race-both eps. And wish there could have been more. Did Janeway's in with 'Boothby' mean the threat was over?There were no promises made by him at the end, only that he would talk to his people. But one could relatively guess safely, that there would be no more further hostilities...but would that preclude some faction who continued to 'fear the other' as it was said in 'Spock's World' from engaging in hostilities, or there even being a split within their society over this issue....There are always possibilites...

 

[Agony_Boothb]

Love species 8472 but they were way too crazy powerful to be used regularly.

 

[bbailey861]

Loved Species 8472 - I used to use that as my username many, many years ago.

 

[kimc]

I liked them. I think Voyager would have been better off focusing on them and the Vaadwaur(sp?) than on the borg.

 

[Kai Winn]

in the flesh is odd. i wonder why chakotay didn't catch something by that kiss like kim on the wrecked borg cube, the genetics were still the same. did you note the massive ferengis of that episode? taller than humans.

 

[Wicca who Wonta]

I liked them. I think Voyager would have been better off focusing on them and the Vaadwaur(sp?) than on the borg.

I would also have liked more 8472 storylines. I liked the Borg but there was an excess of Borg episodes sometimes that could have been filled with some other adversary.

 

[I am not Spock]

Loved em. Sad that they got nerfed in In The Flesh. I would have loved to have seen more of them. I liked the Hirogen too.

 

[Kegg]

The fact they were completely CGI aliens was inherently limiting - both in screentime and in humanising them (though of course they were an alien alien species by design) - it's unsurprising the series soon reverted to having them speak through human mouthpieces. I definitely would have liked to see more of them, but I can't see many stories beyond the ones VOY already did. They were definitely one of VOY's most memorable villain races, though, no doubt about it.

The Vaadwuar were also nice but, on the subject of underused races, I submit the Devore Imperium. Granted, "Counterpoint" is my favourite VOY episode, but these guys could have been the Cardassians of VOY. Shame about their rather bland makeup job, though.

 

[JoeFromEarth]

yes. any alien that != humanoid is awesome.

 

[Helmgirlie]

Chakotay kissed a species 8472....nuff said.

Kinda makes you wonder if they have wet dreams in fluidic space

They didn't.. until Chakotay kissed the species 8472

I liked Species 8472. They were so different from Humanoids. Just change a nose and there you have a 'humanoid' 8472 was much more interesting. I wish they would have explored them more and got stuck in fluidic space. I wanted to see it.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

What's not to like? An alien with three fingers per hand, three legs per body, 1 neck with 2 guide wires for stability, and who only talks to telepaths? I agree that they were too powerful (Heck, they blew up 15 cubes like they were made out of toothpicks!), and unlike the BORG too smart to be recurring baddies. The CGI costs alone must have been horrendous, as has already been pointed out. They WERE kewl!