What is your fave alien race?

[Scarbonac]

Klingons, baby.

"Four thousand throats may be slit in one night by a running man."

Andorians.

Moks/Wookies.

Kzin, Moties, Puppeteers, Caitians, Thunderians, Ewoks, Fuzzies, Thanagarians and any slimy gelatinous tentacled Lovecraftian Horror From the Outer Dark.



The Space-Producers from the South Park episode where it's revealed that Earth is actually a reality TV show.


The colonial alien from the Star Trek cartoon episode "Bem" that was actually four or five different species living in symbiosis.

Tribbles.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I love most of the aliens in Brin's "Uplift" novels, not just the Xeelee...especially the ones who "stroke" their "waxy toroids" to remember stuff (no, that's not smut- they are like a pyramidical stack of waxy/fatty rings, each of which has a seperate function).

The mighty Krell of the movie Forbidden Planet (with Leslie Nielsen in an early role!), long dead, but once as powerful as gods compared to us.

Stephen Donaldson's unseen Amnion (from the "Gap" books) who, Borg-like, capture the members of other species and mutate them to serve as liasons between true Amnion and the other races.

Oh yeah- the Borg! And don't forget the Horta!

 

[elforcelf]

I wish to thank everyone for these great aliens!

 

[Andor]

Can't go wrong with David Brin aliens.

The Uplift War universe is centered around a culture miliions upon millions of years old. The central feature of this culture is the lifecycle of intelligent species. An intelligent race uplifts (that is to say genetically modifies) a non-sentient race to sentience. This uplifted race serve a 100,000 year period of indentured servitude before being given it's freedom. Eventually as races age they turn inwards and fey. Eventually they disappear. (The cause and manner of this disapperance is revealed late in the series.) In the meantine however the galaxies are inhabited by thousands of interacting (war is not uncommon) Patron species and their servitor Client races.

Everything from the plantlike Jophur mentioned above who can assemble a new member of their species to suit simply by stacking rings together, To the vicious Tandu who will rip off thier own heads as an act of contrition. (They can grow new ones as needed. Getting in the way of a Tandu on the street is usually recorded as a suicide.) From the Episarch who can reshape reality from sheer stubborn belief to the gentle but proud Thenannin. The Tymbrinni are the most adaptable race known (far more adaptable that humans). They only send out the most stolid and boring members of their society as their sense of humour tends to get them in trouble.

A list of Uplist universe aliens can be found here.

It's worth noting that the universe also include Humans and their uplifted client species chimps, dolphins, dogs and gorillas.

Uplift universe aliens also tend not to believe in the concept of 'new'. Research isn't done in a lab, it's done in a library. Any experiment you could possibly perform has been done countless times before, if you only look it up.

 

[elforcelf]

Again thank you very much!

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Avoiding those above that I like...

I've always loved Larry Niven's Kzin (hyperagressive bipedal felinoids), Slavers and tnuctipun, though I can't offhand recall their descriptions.

Slavers (thrintum): bipedal, needle teeth, single faceted eye, mouth seems to serve as both feeding receptacle and waste disposal (i.e., it's an anus and a mouth). Not very bright, but powerful telepaths. Read "Asteroid Queen" from Man-Kzin Wars 3.

Tnuctipun: raccoon sized. That's all I can remember about that one survivor from "Halls of the Mountain King" from Man-Kzin Wars 5. I THINK they have six fingers (two thumbs)?

 

[elforcelf]

Flumphs!

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Flumphs!

Ayeyup, indeedy!