[Tiara]

I always liked the Crystalline entity Now that's some serious bling!

[Dough with Fish]

The Flood from HALO, especially those infection forms.

The Zerg.

The Gargantua, Big Momma, and Headcrab from Half-Life.

A lot of races from Star Wars, the Hutts come to mind as an example.

The aliens in Pitch Black and the ones in Chronicles of Riddick and Escape from Butchers Bay.

The Mooninites and Plutonians from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

ANd that's all for now.

[Ace]

Originally posted by Liberator
The only truly alien species in Star Trek are the Tholians.  Everything else is more or less humanoid and driven by more or less human motivations, even 8472.

The Tholians (TOS, ENT), Horta (TOS) Crystalline critter (TNG), the "ugly bags of mostly water" insulting crystal critters (TNG) are the most alien Trek ones.

[Tiara]

The Trek races are mostly humanoid because an ancient race (which was also humanoid) spread pieces of their DNA on other worlds. From those DNA pieces, life evolved. Hence the huge amount of Humanoid species.

(It was in one of the TNG eps)

[Dough with Fish]

Originally posted by Tiara
The Trek races are mostly humanoid because an ancient race (which was also humanoid) spread pieces of their DNA on other worlds. From those DNA pieces, life evolved. Hence the huge amount of Humanoid species.

(It was in one of the TNG eps)

Any idea which ep it is, or what happens in it. I have seen just about every episode of Trek, excluding Enterprise, and I don't remember anything about that.

[ShadowWolf_IH]

she's right.....in fact it took a member of each race acting in concert with one another in order to get the thing to open if i remember correctly.  at any rate, i think that they all had to be there in order for the "memory core" to work.

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Dough with Fish

Any idea which ep it is, or what happens in it. I have seen just about every episode of Trek, excluding Enterprise, and I don't remember anything about that.

As I said, i can't remember. But it did happen. At the end they found some alien hologram that told them about their origin.

[Grey Wolf]

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/episode/68598.html
The Chase is the episode you're all thinking of.

[Dough with Fish]

Well, now. I haven't seen that episode. Or I had and just have forgotten about it thanks to DS9 being back on the air here in the States and all.

[Rictor]

er, the Hulvuloo (or something like that), a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue. Can't get much less-humanoid than that.

[Black Wolf]

The goauld from SG-1.

[WMCoolmon]

Ooh, Stargate, good call. I'd also forward the Reetou (rebels), who had some pretty bizzare goals. The...things in that one episode, with the Enkaran who was actually an android.

There was an Asimov book with some weird aliens in it - by the Gods themselves? - that reproduced in threes. (and it was some pretty odd reproduction at that)

[Tiara]

How could I forget!? REPLICATORS!

[Gloriano]

Babylon5=Shadows and Vorlons
StarGate=Asgards
Pradator

[karajorma]

TV
B5's Gaim are pretty alien (The one we see walking about in the episodes is apparently a genetically engineered caste designed for meeting with humanoid aliens. The real Gaim are very insectoid and thus scare the crap out of humans)

The shadows of course were alien  

Actually B5 had a fair few really alien aliens but like most sci-fi resorted to humanoids in order to save money.

Books
The Buggers from Orson Scott Card's Enderverse are pretty alien. Quite a few races from Larry Niven's books qualify (although a lot are too human).

Movies
Apart from those mentioned I can't think of a single one. Why do people keep mentioning the Predator? Apart from the jaw thing that alien was pretty damn close to human.

Originally posted by Tiara
The Trek races are mostly humanoid because an ancient race (which was also humanoid) spread pieces of their DNA on other worlds. From those DNA pieces, life evolved. Hence the huge amount of Humanoid species.

Don't get me started on what a load of tosh that explaination is Trek aliens are humanoid cause it saves money. Same as B5, S:AAB and just about every other Sci-fi show. Bolting on a pseudo-scientific explaination was a nice attempt but anyone who knows anything about evolution will realise what utter nonsense it was
 Still it makes for a nice episode

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Games? Hostile Waters's "aliens" (I don't know why, but HW was blessed with no one but two sets of the COOLEST BADGUYS EVER. Anyone who doesn't have this game, even just for the cutscene monologues, officially sucks balls), as well as the games already mentioned.

Hostile Waters kicked arse. As well as having cool bad guys the game also featured one of the most realistic depictions of a society with nanotech I've seen in a very long time. Most shows or books simply say that nanotech is used to repair ship hulls and nothing else. Hostile Waters realised that there would be almost no facet of human life that wouldn't be touched.

[Tiara]

Tribbles

[Flipside]

The Silicon Mining things from the ST-TOS episode. The ones Spock mind melds with......'The Pain!'.

The Shadows. The Vorlon were a little too 'human' in their actions at times.

Shivans were pretty good actually, after all, we still don't comprehend their motives or goals.

And, of course, Tin Man from TNG.

That's my votes

Edit : Oh yes, there were also some nice 2D primitive creatures in TNG that were rather cleverly thought out, though not sentient.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Tiara
Tribbles

I actually saw an evolutionary work up for tribbles that made perfect sense. I'll have to see if I can find it

[Flipside]

Chinchilla's of the Future!

hehehehe

[Col. Fishguts]

Originally posted by Tiara
Tribbles

...they're hamsters missing legs and face.

as for alien aliens, the Furies from the original Battlezone game were cool. Self-concious, morphing bio-metal pwns joo!!!