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Your Least Favourite Trek SPECIES and Why?
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Similar to the thread "Your Least Favorite Trek Character And Why?", lets start up some random discussion on your least Fav Species :P
This can me Minor or Major species in TV or Movies.
This can me Minor or Major species in TV or Movies.
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2. I suspect the Kazon will be a popular pick. Because they were dorks.
3. As will be the Pakleds.
4. And the Orions, while iconic, are made of the fears and resentments of millions of babymen and social conservatives, and are pretty embarrassing to think about in the 21st century.
Personally they need to "look for things that make [them] go" away.:D
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I suppose if I had to pick a actual species, I would also say Caitians. The problem is Trek tends to a good job with their species. Even species like the Cardassians and Changelings, which are mostly inclined to be seen as a "Villianous" species are fairly fleshed out to the point where, even if you aren't rooting for them, you like them anyways.
Caitians and your generic aliens just haven't been given the fleshing out and backstories needed to make them lovable. Caitians just seemed be thrown in there cause they could, and well lets be honest, there is a reason generic aliens are called "generic" they aren't suppose to be fleshed out, they are just out there to be there.
The Borg aren't really a species so the Cardassians.
A race that willfully occupies another race for decades does not deserve mercy when its their turn to lose
I would actually welcome the Borg assiimilating the cardassians
then we could de-assimilate them with a quantum torpedo
We have a winner!
Why? Despite their incessant ramblings about being honorable warriors, Klingons tend to fight just for the fun of fighting. They don't fight because they have a reason to fight. Sure if you give them a good reason they'll fight for that, but they'll fight just because they're bored.... Where's the honor in that?
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-Bajorans.. made DS9 unbearable for the first season or two, prophets blah suffering blah soil reclamers.. shoot me now please!
-Catians/Feresans, kitty cat people in space? excuse me i have to cough of a hairball.. >.<
-Kazon, the only way i can see them, is klingons without as good technology, but more scrub-ish than biker-ish.. bland and uninteresting
-klingons for the sole reason ever other sentence.. 'honor' this and 'honor' that.. gawd.
Other ideas..
-Humans!!!, lets be honest, some of dem admirals..
-Vulcans for the same reason as klingons.. 'logic' this 'logic' that, while spock was definative, every vulcan since has almost been a carbon copy, just with a few differences
-Bolians... damn you chell!
-'zakdorn' featured in the TNG episode where enterprise faces Hathaway in combat exercises, that alien who played strategema.. GRAH annoying! >.<
-Talaxians, do i need to say anything
-Hirogen annoyed me a bit too, similar to the klingon/vulcan gripe, they just seemed lacking and 2dimentional when EVERY sentence is about the Hunt.. bleh.
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I forgot one of my most despised encounters of a TNG episode
-Tamarians, "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" interesting idea for anlien language but DEAR GOD, so annoying
(Don't even say it Klingons. a bar of soap will send you guys into convulsions)
Bajorans are OK but their religion is idiotic
Are humans any different?
As for my choices:
Kazon. Bargain bin Klingon ripoffs. Complete with lice.
Pakleds. Does it really warrant explanation?
Almost all races that look exactly like humans. (Cause, you know, LAZY.)
Floating balls of Light. (Again, LAZY.)
Yes, I really never liked them. ALL they were originally made for was:
1. To pussify the Borg (the first one of many times this would happen on Voyager)
2. To be a 'greater threat' (but this was easily tossed aside because of the ubership Voyager was)
3. To get 7 of 9 on the show.
For all the qualms and issues I have with the game, Species 8472 have been done much more like they were seen in Voyager, but better. They don't care, they won't stop, and they just want us gone, period. Yes it's true we don't see much of the Undine in the game, but eh, let's just put that aside for now.
All of the species in TOS that didn't live on past it.
Basically, all those one-time species that were there to serve as little more than a 'human morality lesson'. I know TOS is old, etc etc, it still bugs the heck outta me.
TNG-era Romulans. Not DS9 Romulans though.
Honestly, the TNG version of Romulans always annoyed me to no end, being treated, particuarly Commander Tomalok, as the 'Saturday morning cartoon' villian. It pretty much went like this:
Bridge Crew: blah blah blah, Romulans are doing something bad!
Picard: Hmm...Neutral zone, warp 9, engage!
Evil Romulan: Blah blah, I'm not evil, blah blah.
Picard: Yes you are, and here's what we found out about what you were gonna do.
Evil Romulan: Curses! I'll get you next time, and your little dog too!
Picard: Once again we saved the Federation from war.
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But anyways.... Back to Klingons. Truthfully, yeah some humans are just as bad with that honor TRIBBLE as Klingons are, there are some with actual brains though.
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The Delta quadrent race who pirate peoples body parts.......Exterminate
Human type races with only tatoos or skin color as a difference
The TOS First Federation race.....Where were they when the borg attacked ? Cowards
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
JJ-Verse will never be Canon or considered Lore...It will always be JJ-Verse
Hirogen-The dollar store/go-bots version of "predator".
Kazon-Ghetto/trailer park trash of the Delta quadrant.
I guess you missed the part about them only appearing to be idiots. Remember all that "junk" on the pakled ship? Stolen, reverse engineered and improved from various other folks.
Canon aside, they still suck.;)
Hitler was evil, and many (during the times of World War I & II) would have stated that all Germans were evil. This isn't the case. Most of those soilders were simply following orders for fear that if they didn't, the lives of themselves and their families would be forfeit. You can't condemn humanity for the act of one man.
As a whole, I'd think Cardassians a rather proud people; Damar seemed to think this way. Sure, some of their actions might have been questionable (Damar killing Ziyal) but from Damars point of view, Ziyal has betrayed his people.
Cardassians aren't evil. It isn't the entire species, only some select individuals.
I can't think on minor races; boy there have been so many I've thought stupid, but I'm going to vote Kazon. They're essentially Klingon wannabees. They've a code of honour, but it's a bit backwards, they work in clans (similar to Klingon houses) and they live on dark ships that look like they're about to fall apart. :P
Hitler was one man (a loony) and yet we WERE judged on him (see some adaptions of the day the earth stood still)
nah they are just evil
look at the holographic one in voyager torturing a hologram
Proud peoples never occupy
they Defeat occupiers
Thats like saying that not all Ferengi like money
There was a Cardassian in TNG "Lower Decks" that risked his life to get a message to the Federation. In that episode there was a dialogue between him and a Bajoran in which he stated he was tired of war. That Cardassian wasn't evil. Damar wasn't evil, he was doing what he thought right by his people. You spoke of a hologram, there was a second (female) hologram in another episode of Voyager that wasn't evil, she helped Torres I think.
You can't sum up an entire species / country as evil because of the actions of a few individuals. Look at the war in Iraq / Iran. There were stories (some of them, quite possibly true) of US solders TRIBBLE and attacking civilians. Does that make all Americans evil? No it doesn't.
Just because you get a bad bunch in a crowd, it doesn't mean the entire crowd are bad people.
Ferengi join Starfleet. Nog has joined Starfleet. I don't recall Nog being that concerned with Latinium toward the later seasons of DS9.
I wish to change my vote, whilst the Kazon are still unfavourable, they can go down to second place. My first place of unfavourable aliens has to go to the Wormhole Aliens.
true
Treason (an Evil act)
Doing what is right for your people TO someone else is evil yes
political so ill skip that one
but as an ex soldier myself I can tell you if one of us did that our own people would hang us out to dry
the whole point of trek races is they are stereo types
Ferengi are greedy , Cardassians are evil , romulans are militaristic , Klingons are proud and agressive , borg eat their own dead etc
Ferengi join starfleet for the free health care extensive perks and easy access to Clothed females
Kinky or what??