Your favourite alien of the week species

[Oddish]

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.

Yeah, really. If we take STO as canon, they were able to dig up dead Harry from Deadlock and reanimate him as well. And who knows, maybe Seska, Suder, and the dozen Kazon he killed have become members of their society as well. Not to mention any other crewman who died with a relatively intact corpse. One wonders if any species actually turns their dead over to the Kobali, to give them a second chance.

Speaking of fast travel, something else I thought... Species 8472 had to be able to emerge from fluidic space pretty close to the Federation to be able to replicate Starfleet Academy so perfectly. Maybe the laws of distance were different there... maybe they could have taken a detour through fluidic space and gotten home that way.

 

[Summer Solstice]

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.

Perhaps everyone else knew about the Vaadwaur's subspace corridors and they were such common knowledge that they forgot to mention them. Or the Sikarians had a way to transport ships using their magical transporters and were willing to let other species use them, just not Voyager because ironically their stories were too good for the Sikarians to be ok with them leaving. And to be fair, Voyager did get home pretty quickly.

One wonders if any species actually turns their dead over to the Kobali, to give them a second chance.

That is an amazing idea.

 

[Lynx]

I think someone in another thread said she looked sort of like the Hirogen. Maybe she was the female of their species.

Yes, I was the one who came up with that comment. I think it was in Thomas Eugene's Voyager Wallpaper thread.

There is a stiking similarity between Marayna and the Hirogen. My theory is that her planet was inhabited by The Hirogen but the Voyager crew didn't know it at that time.

As for "Favorite aliens of the week", my favorites are the Vori because of their language.

If I become a millionaire, I would love to buy a piece of land on the Canadian-American border or an island outside the Canadian-American coast, declare it a microstate and have the Vori language as the official language there.

I would also have liked to see more of the Voth, even if I found the theory about Earth being inhabited by their ancestors a bit over the top.

The Bothans were also interesting.

 

[Trekker09]

I liked Kellin, the Ramuran tracer in “Unforgettable”—not one of the best scripts, but it was Beltran’s favorite episode. The Ramurans as a species weren’t very admirable but Madsen portrayed an appealing character.

 

[MarkusTay]

This will probably seem like an odd choice, but whatever species Bahrat was part of. Thats the dude who was running the Trading Post on the border of the Nekrit Expanse. I don't know if his whole race was supposed to be like him, or that was just his personality (in ST, most aliens are wrapped around a single personality trait). I just thought he was such an excellent, believable character. He was harsh yet fair, would listen to reason but also quick to anger. He was a no-nonsense kind of individual who did whatever he needed to do to run his station properly, and legally (he was anti-drugs).

In other words, he was very 'human', for a non-human. He was just really good at his job and didn't take no crap from anyone. No deceptiveness, etc., like we see way too often. I liked him.

I think someone in another thread said she looked sort of like the Hirogen. Maybe she was the female of their species.

Interesting... I may run with this in my fan-work stuff.

What if - while 'all the men were out hunting' (like idiots) - it was up to the Hirogen females to actually keep their civilization running and functional?

 

[at Quark's]

This will probably seem like an odd choice, but whatever species Bahrat was part of. Thats the dude who was running the Trading Post on the border of the Nekrit Expanse. I don't know if his whole race was supposed to be like him, or that was just his personality (in ST, most aliens are wrapped around a single personality trait). I just thought he was such an excellent, believable character. He was harsh yet fair, would listen to reason but also quick to anger. He was a no-nonsense kind of individual who did whatever he needed to do to run his station properly, and legally (he was anti-drugs).

In other words, he was very 'human', for a non-human. he was just really good at his job and didn't take no crap from anyone. No deceptiveness, etc., like we see way too often. I liked him.

He reminded me somewhat of Odo.

 

[MarkusTay]

Yeah, I guess he did, Weird, because I never liked Odo, but I liked that other dude.
But on one level he was more believable - Odo really didn't have a good reason to be the way he was (except for the over-used 'Pinocchio Syndrome' in Star Trek), but that dude also charged 20% for all exchanges, which makes his character very realistic. He is the way he is because keeping his station running perfectly meant more money for his retirement. At the same time, he could have made even more money by getting paid-off by drug dealers and smugglers, so he may have liked money but he was very honest (a rare duality). What were Odo's motivations? Since he was just as good at his job for the Cardassians, Bajorans, Federation, etc? Pride, maybe? Perhaps a deep-rooted cultural need to have 'power' over solids? Who knows? very tenuous - whereas that Bahrat dude was very relatable. He was in it for the money. Ferengi would have loved him.

I also loved how annoyed Janeway was at him. Little miss 'we need to respect other people's cultures' was letting her bigotry slip through there. Sorry if your socialist, 'share everything/no money' world view doesn't work in the Delta Quadrant Captain, but other species are sane. LOL
So I guess a part of the reason I like him is that he bugged Janeway... that tells more about me than it does them. Cheers

 

[dupersuper]

I never liked Odo

For shame!

 

[WarpTenLizard]

Torat from "Counterpoint," with his nose thing.

There are a lot of good ones though, especially from seasons 5 and 6. The budget seemed to run out for alien makeup in season 7.

 

[Orphalesion]

I would say the Krenim but their make-up looks like they have scabs and any episode involving them would inevitably lead to temporal headaches. But they were still one of Voyager's cooler antagonist.

I'd possibly have to say the Vaadwaur. Cool concept and pretty good makeup. It's really a bummer that they didn't show up more.

And those aliens from the Void, really would have liked to know more about them and how they live there.

And if astrozoa are allowed, that telepathic Pitcher Plant.

I think someone in another thread said she looked sort of like the Hirogen. Maybe she was the female of their species.

Eh, do the Hirogen seem like the sort of people who'd want to preserve a nebula because it's pretty?
That doesn't exactly have anything to do with hunting.
What I could see is something like her species and the Hirogen evolved from a common ancestor. Or "parallel evolution" whenever Star Trek decides it's canon :-P

If we take STO as canon

Which we don't, because it isn't. As much as I'd prefer the Romulan Republic to PIC (remember when PIC still pretended Romulans had relevance to its storyline?)

 

[Oddish]

Which we don't, because it isn't.

No, it's not, but it's still a source of ideas, and possibilities.

 

[Orphalesion]

No, it's not, but it's still a source of ideas, and possibilities.

That it is. And it has a lot of interesting concepts.

 

[Oddish]

And it does try to give the canon characters futures that make sense.