I want to see more of the Jurati Borg and her "Freely Associated Borgs"
What is your favorite alien culture in Star Trek?
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The Krenim are basically Time Lords. If there's an original absolute timeline out there, it's probably been distorted beyond all recognition by these buggers. They hold the key to what life must have been like before all the temporal jiggery-pokery they took great glee in executing. All the discontinuities you see across Trek is probably entirely down to their relentless interference. These tragic, living ghosts are the only ones who can hear the echoes of a past universe long gone...
I'd join their crew for a year, maybe longer, if they serve Kellogg's Product 19 breakfast cereal in the morning.
I'd join their crew for a year, maybe longer, if they serve Kellogg's Product 19 breakfast cereal in the morning.
I guess the Vuclans, but from the novels Spock's World and The Romulan Way, more than anything on TV or film.
Cardassians, as of DS9 and some of its Trekverse stuff. There's the Hebetian aspect, then material challenges overwhelm it and a people with intellectul and artistic trends find them overwhelmed by survivalism and militarism. Cardassians are more human in.....cynical, pragmatic ways, than other aliens,.
Cardassians. I always loved the Cardassians. Second would be the Romulans.
The problem with alien cultures in Star Trek is that most of them aren’t alien — they’re almost all setups you could imagine some imaginary nation of humans doing, because that’s pretty much what they are. The 10-C aliens were a nice exception.
(EDIT: For that matter, despite not really being an alien, so was V’Ger.)
(EDIT: For that matter, despite not really being an alien, so was V’Ger.)
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How about the nice folks on Angel One?
Or maybe the Edo of Rubicun (who are not to be confused with the Edoans of Edos, who in turn are not to be confused with the somewhat less, ahem, "animated" Triexians, of Triex.)
Or maybe the Edo of Rubicun (who are not to be confused with the Edoans of Edos, who in turn are not to be confused with the somewhat less, ahem, "animated" Triexians, of Triex.)
Say what you want about that culture, it took a relatively realistic look at how gender equality is established, and that there will always be those who fight it. I'll take it over DS9's "Ishka waves her magic wand and POOF!" version.
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