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What Aliens would you like to see in Season 2?

What Aliens would you like to see in Season 2?

  • Gorn

    Votes: 12 17.6%
  • Romulans

    Votes: 12 17.6%
  • Borg

    Votes: 5 7.4%
  • Bolian

    Votes: 5 7.4%
  • Breen

    Votes: 7 10.3%
  • Xindi

    Votes: 16 23.5%
  • Kzinti

    Votes: 19 27.9%
  • Pakled

    Votes: 3 4.4%
  • The Q

    Votes: 4 5.9%
  • Tholian

    Votes: 26 38.2%
  • Silent Enemy Aliens

    Votes: 4 5.9%
  • Suliban

    Votes: 6 8.8%
  • Sphere Builders

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Edosian

    Votes: 5 7.4%
  • Denobulans

    Votes: 18 26.5%
  • Changlings (don't worry, it will be classified after)

    Votes: 3 4.4%
  • other

    Votes: 14 20.6%

  • Total voters
    68
Alpha Centauri is an earth colony founded in the late 21st and early 22nd centuries and doesn't have a native alien population according to ENT. It claimed independence from earth and then later joined the federation as a sovereign nation. Cochrane moving from Earth to Alpha centauri would be like someone moving from america to europe.
To me, AC is either part of the human memberworld (ENT?) or an alien one (TOS lore). Making them an independent world that joined separately doesn't sound right. Vulcans have been around a lot longer; do they get twelve independent world votes in the Federation Council?
 
To me, AC is either part of the human memberworld (ENT?) or an alien one (TOS lore). Making them an independent world that joined separately doesn't sound right. Vulcans have been around a lot longer; do they get twelve independent world votes in the Federation Council?

I'm just going by what I remember reading on memory alpha which indicated that Alpha Centauri was uninhabited before human colonisation. Personally, I wouldn't mind if the Discovery showrunners changed this and went with some of the FASA stuff and had native centaurans, the more the merrier as far as alien species are concerned! AFAIK a number of federation member worlds like Berengaria and Deneva started out as colonies before becoming nation states.
 
I voted Bolian and Tholian, not just because they rhyme but because they're both races who have been long established as existing but with very little actually known about them.

I would like to see Breen, Tholians, Tzenkethi - Typhon Pact races basically - but only if they use the material already established about them in the books. I know they're not obligated to do that, obviously, but with Kirsten Beyer in the room it's at least a possibility. Of course it's also a potential reason for them explicitly not to use those races - because doing so either ties them to other people's creations or risks alienating fans who want them tied to those already established things.

I dislike when Star Trek constantly invents new alien races with every new iteration of the show. There are enough aliens already established - I want to learn more about them, not get constantly bombarded with new randoms. But I don't want races we've already had a lot of time with either - Bajorans, Klingons, Ferengi, Cardassians. We already know enough about them, let someone else have the spotlight.

I want something in the middle. Bolians are the perfect example - they've been around since the first season of TNG but apart from a couple of tiny titbits we know nothing about them. They like eating aged meat, you can feel their pulse through their ridge, you can't share a bathroom with them, they're okay with suicide. That's all we know. They're just brought out whenever we need an alien in the background to provide some colour, but let's get to know them as a culture, as a society, they way we have with other races.

That's what Discovery is perfectly placed to do IMO - not invent new aliens we've never heard of in the future, but explore already established aliens who could just use a little more attention without tripping on canon.

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I want something in the middle. Bolians are the perfect example - they've been around since the first season of TNG but apart from a couple of tiny titbits we know nothing about them. They like eating aged meat, you can feel their pulse through their ridge, you can't share a bathroom with them, they're okay with suicide. That's all we know.

That's not all we know. Bolians famously have a bank in the 24th century. There are other signs (like contracts signed with the Ferengi) to suggest the Bolians have a capitalist economy more broadly. This is interesting, because humanity canonically no longer has money or anything resembling a market economy by that point - nor do many other members of the Federation, such as Vulcans.

Bolians might be an interesting counterpoint to the Ferengi in Trek canon - a culture which hasn't completely done away with the idea of markets as a means of exchange, but is not set up as a parody of everything which is wrong with capitalism. And I'm saying that as a leftist. Maybe Bolians just have a slightly different distribution of personality traits than humans, allowing them to engage in enlightened self-interest while avoiding cheating and exploitation? It would be interesting to explore.
 
It’s a paradox
That's the trouble with time travel. Sometimes it's fun and you have a laugh with historical figures, pantsing Hitler and spook ancient humans in alien costumes. Other times you end up your own father and mother or find out that your kidneys disappeared and you have to steal a replacement from yourself in the past, only to find out that's what happened to them in the first place.

Although it does make buying a gift for Father's Day and Mother's Day much simpler.
 
That's the trouble with time travel. Sometimes it's fun and you have a laugh with historical figures, pantsing Hitler and spook ancient humans in alien costumes. Other times you end up your own father and mother or find out that your kidneys disappeared and you have to steal a replacement from yourself in the past, only to find out that's what happened to them in the first place.

Although it does make buying a gift for Father's Day and Mother's Day much simpler.

Yes, the whole time paradox thing gives me a headache! He did, but he didn't? Ok...run that by me again?
 
After seeing the Venom trailer, I think it would be awesome to see a species like that done with modern CGI.
 
I wanna see TAS characters in the new series. If not how about a 25% different Andorian in purple and silver hair with yellow eyes to keep with the different Canon. Add a 3rd antenna too.
 
TOS did an awesome job of depicting truly "alien" aliens, especially compared with the rest of the series. They were vastly more creative and imaginative back then.

Salt Vampire
Horta
Neural Parasite Creatures (Fried eggs)
Metrons
Gorn
Korob and Sylvia
The Companion
Dikronium Cloud Creature
Providers
Psychedelic Giant Ameoba
Medusans
Excalbians
Zetarians
Tholians


I'd like to see DSC pave some ground like that rather than prosthetic enhanced humanoid biped of the week.
 
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Well I voted and I think it's cool how many people like cats.

Denobulans for me, we learned enough about them to intrigue with their complex marriages and seemingly open social ways. They are also witty.

Otherwise give me the boys in blue, Bolians and Andorians thanks. I just don't need too many NEW species, I loved how DS9 fleshed out so many briefly seen species and I would like DSC to continue that.
 
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