Which alien species that we see once do you like the best? (Aliens that appear in a two-part episode and no other episodes count as an alien of the week, like the Krenim.) My favourite are the Tak Tak from "Macrocosm". Communicating through interpretive dance was unique amongst aliens, although perhaps bees communicate like that?
Your favourite alien of the week species
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Is that how it was? The way I remembered it, was the Kobali resurrected Lindsay's corpse and the result was a new identity. She still had her memories.
Yes, same....as I recall, Jhet'leya re-animated the corpse but could not maintain Lindsay's identity for very long.
Three others from the series who stuck in my mind…
Derran Tal, the Varro woman…she and Harry Kim fell in love against regulations, In “The Disease.”
Marayna, unknown race - in her holodeck appearance, beautiful and smart enough to give Tuvok a good game of Kal-Toh in "Alter Ego."
Danara Pel, the Vidiian physician - once the Doc made her look well again. ("Life Signs")
Three others from the series who stuck in my mind…
Derran Tal, the Varro woman…she and Harry Kim fell in love against regulations, In “The Disease.”
Marayna, unknown race - in her holodeck appearance, beautiful and smart enough to give Tuvok a good game of Kal-Toh in "Alter Ego."
Danara Pel, the Vidiian physician - once the Doc made her look well again. ("Life Signs")
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I think someone in another thread said she looked sort of like the Hirogen. Maybe she was the female of their species.
If she were the female of her species I can understand why she was looking for isolation and hiding in that nebula in the first place .....
joking aside, that's an interesting idea. I could also imagine she had seen enough of her society in that case and she was driven to isolation.
Well, we never saw a female Hirogen.
If I had to pick only one, it would be the alien miners from “Homestead”. I really loved the makeup job and the look of the species.
I just ignore Chackotay's "theory" and assume the Preservers or some one saved some dinosaurs.
There are several that were ripe for coming back.
Botha - while the ending of "PERSISTENCE OF VISION" is great because it left more questions than answers, they were so mysterious that I would have loved to learn more about them.
Swarm species - so different that the universal translator couldn't really pin their language down. Their ships work as a full on collective. It's almost like the writers were trying to prepare us for the Borg later that season.
Voth - I would have loved to see them again. "DISTANT ORIGIN" is one of my favorites from the series. A deeper look at their culture would have been awesome.
Krenim - a species that uses time itself as a weapon? Genius, and feels like a DOCTOR WHO nod.
Chatic Space Dwellers - while the execution of "THE FIGHT" was bad, the concept was unique, and so was this alien.
Vaadwaur - they were supposed to be recurring. Even dialogue at the end indicated this. They were the conquerors who got beaten, and now everyone is more advanced than they are, but because they know the underspace so well, they have an edge to recover a lot of what was lost. This needed a followup.
Kobali - unique method of procreating. Though the bigger question no one raised during this episode... Ballard died 3 years before this episode. (It really should be 2 years, because that was the first encounter with the Hirogen, but we'll table that other inconsistency for later.) That's about 30,000 light years ago... resurrected Ballard caught up with Voyager pretty easily, eh? And with not knowing where exactly to find them. And her new father was right behind her. Yet no one asks about the method of travel, or examines her shuttle? Could have easily shaved the last 20,000 light years off the rest of the trip.
Botha - while the ending of "PERSISTENCE OF VISION" is great because it left more questions than answers, they were so mysterious that I would have loved to learn more about them.
Swarm species - so different that the universal translator couldn't really pin their language down. Their ships work as a full on collective. It's almost like the writers were trying to prepare us for the Borg later that season.
Voth - I would have loved to see them again. "DISTANT ORIGIN" is one of my favorites from the series. A deeper look at their culture would have been awesome.
Krenim - a species that uses time itself as a weapon? Genius, and feels like a DOCTOR WHO nod.
Chatic Space Dwellers - while the execution of "THE FIGHT" was bad, the concept was unique, and so was this alien.
Vaadwaur - they were supposed to be recurring. Even dialogue at the end indicated this. They were the conquerors who got beaten, and now everyone is more advanced than they are, but because they know the underspace so well, they have an edge to recover a lot of what was lost. This needed a followup.
Kobali - unique method of procreating. Though the bigger question no one raised during this episode... Ballard died 3 years before this episode. (It really should be 2 years, because that was the first encounter with the Hirogen, but we'll table that other inconsistency for later.) That's about 30,000 light years ago... resurrected Ballard caught up with Voyager pretty easily, eh? And with not knowing where exactly to find them. And her new father was right behind her. Yet no one asks about the method of travel, or examines her shuttle? Could have easily shaved the last 20,000 light years off the rest of the trip.
I liked that Botha because he was so unrepentant and still mocking Janeway even after he was defeated. Not that I like to see that everytime, but it was nice for a change. I would have liked to see more of them, too, but sparingly. A few episodes or so, because I think it would get stale quickly, too.
Never bought into the Vaadwaur, to me they were just another 'baddie' race, nothing special.
The Kobali sound intriguing, but problematic to me as a concept - as problematic as for example the 'dream people' from Waking Moments - although I found those intriguing as well.
As for encountering them after Voyager presumably having covered a distance that should have left them well behind, well, they weren't the only species to do so. (Talaxian colony, anyone? Kazon? Hirogen? (ok, at least from the last species we know they were supposed to be that spread out).
I guess no local DQ species bothered to tell poor Janeway about that publicly available transwarp hub that could be easily accessed just by dialing 474747.
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