"Wouldn't it be cool if..." aliens.

[Arpy]

Wouldn't it be cool to see Naussicans with moving mandibles - like with the Andorian antennae or in the Predator movies?

Or Captain Boday's transparent head?

Or just with an unusually shaped one?

I'd really like to see an alien with a strangely shaped body that needed a specially tailored uniform.

 

[Vonstadt]

I always wanted to see Ensign Nahrat...the horta that served aboard the TOS Enterprise in several novels and one very old C64 computer game!

I always pictured a Horta with a stylized tarp strung over him

Vons

 

[RegFan]

I'd like to see what some hybrids look like, Andorian/Ferengi for instance.

 

[Myasishchev]

CGI employed to complete the illusion that an actor has a different hue flowing in their circulatory system.

 

[Cheapjack]

Bug eyed monsters???!!!

 

[Forbin]

I always wanted to see Ensign Nahrat...the horta that served aboard the TOS Enterprise in several novels and one very old C64 computer game!

I always pictured a Horta with a stylized tarp strung over him

Vons

I always thought that was pretty ridiculous. Just because Spock said they were "remarkably intelligent" doesn't mean they're THAT intelligent. I figured them like smart animals - dogs, dolphins, bears... smart animals that excrete acid and need to eat rock. Not your ideal starship crewman.

 

[Myasishchev]

^Really smart animals that had the capacity to reason their way out of confrontations and to learn (albeit broken) English in five seconds?

I think Spock also referred to them as logical, which presumably means capable of logical reasoning, which is sort of one of the defining characteristics of sapience.

 

[Vonstadt]

Yeah the 'No Kill I' pretty much summed that up for me as well.

If my dog was capable of that we would still be arguing over whether it was time to walk or not

I assumed that meant the Horta were a rational logical intelligent species.

Vons

 

[barnaclelapse]

Yeah the 'No Kill I' pretty much summed that up for me as well.

If my dog was capable of that we would still be arguing over whether it was time to walk or not

I assumed that meant the Horta were a rational logical intelligent species.

Vons

If my dog started doing that my likely reaction would be to start screaming and setting things on fire.

Just saying.

 

[The Wormhole]

I always wanted to see Ensign Nahrat...the horta that served aboard the TOS Enterprise in several novels and one very old C64 computer game!

I always pictured a Horta with a stylized tarp strung over him

Vons

I always thought that was pretty ridiculous. Just because Spock said they were "remarkably intelligent" doesn't mean they're THAT intelligent. I figured them like smart animals - dogs, dolphins, bears... smart animals that excrete acid and need to eat rock. Not your ideal starship crewman.

According to TNG there are dolphins serving in Starfleet...

 

[Therin of Andor]

I always pictured a Horta with a stylized tarp strung over him

Naraht appeared in several DC Comics, but wears only a vocoder (for speech), which had the Enterprise insignia on it. Unfortunealy, he was also given rectangular eyes which seemed inspired from a TOS Tholian.
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Naraht

 

[Forbin]

Okay, as intelligent as a gorilla that can use sign language.
That excretes acid and needs to eat rock.
And can't use chairs.

Still not my idea of a useful crewman.

 

[milo bloom]

I want to see the sentient squirrels that were featured in some of the comics back in the day.

Honestly, anything non-humanoid. CGI is getting to the point where it's convincing enough to work, and if you learn how to direct the other actors to react to where that character is going to be in the final product (like Gollum), then you're good to go.

 

[GalaxyClass1701]

Captain Boday would have been a coo one to see.

 

[Myasishchev]

I want to see the sentient squirrels that were featured in some of the comics back in the day.

I dunno, and maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but anything with too small a brain I'm dubious about the physical possibility of. If for no other reason than thermal issues.

 

[milo bloom]

I want to see the sentient squirrels that were featured in some of the comics back in the day.

I dunno, and maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but anything with too small a brain I'm dubious about the physical possibility of. If for no other reason than thermal issues.

They were actually a little bigger than regular squirrels, it took three of them stacking on each others' shoulders to reach the turbolift call button. It was really just a throwaway gag and I don't think anything was ever done with them, but the image has just stuck with me over the years.

 

[Arpy]

CGI employed to complete the illusion that an actor has a different hue flowing in their circulatory system.

What do you mean by this? ...How flat and/or powdery make-up sometimes looks as it's caked on actors' faces, taking away skin's natural (if minimal) translucence?

I'd also like to see different races within a species. All the Cardassians are exactly the same shade of gray. The make-up may have changed throughout the seasons, but in each episode, every Cardassian is exactly the same color. Imagine one that's near black - not human "black" but actually near charcoal in color. Or one that's near white. And instead of the dark one having more rounded "African" like features, it be pinched and angular, and the lighter one be smoother and curvier. I like the idea of playing with norms. Why should alien races vary in the same ways human ones do?

 

[Cheapjack]

I wouldn't mind seeing aliens that look like the greys, or the nordics.

I wouldn't mind seeing Spock getting reimagined, so he's really green, or a tawny colour.

Though, there again, he has passed for a human, with a hat on, or a headband, so he can't look all that different.

Alien looking aliens, with big heads and eyes far apart, or maybe no eyes or noses, or eyes below noses!

 

[I am not Spock]

This is why I'd love a new Trek TV series, now that its affordable to do a CGI main castmember. I'd love to see Edosians or Caitians done in CGI. Or a Xindi Aquatic crewmember on a Federation starship. Or even canonise the Brikar (rocklike) species from Peter David's New Frontier novels.

 

[TiberiusMaximus]

Brikar would be awesome! Caitians too.

I'd also like to see different races within a species. All the Cardassians are exactly the same shade of gray. The make-up may have changed throughout the seasons, but in each episode, every Cardassian is exactly the same color. Imagine one that's near black - not human "black" but actually near charcoal in color. Or one that's near white. And instead of the dark one having more rounded "African" like features, it be pinched and angular, and the lighter one be smoother and curvier. I like the idea of playing with norms. Why should alien races vary in the same ways human ones do?

I agree...there are dark-skinned Vulcans and lighter skinned Klingons as well as some variety within ridges, but other than that there's not much variety within different races.

Somebody mentioned Narat - that would be awesome too. And Vilix'pran from DS9 who's mentioned but never seen - winged, reproduces by budding. He could be interesting.