Out of Pod Experience

I love those humans in Star Trek. They were the most popular race as well, featured in all the episodes. Despite the spandex . . . or maybe because of the spandex. The jury is still out on that one.

"I admire its purity."

I may be a bit outdated, but as for alien species....

... the xenomorphs are my favorite creature. They're not a civilization but they don't need it.. acid for blood, what else!!??
... the Moties. So tragic, and The Mote in God's eye is a fantastic story.
... the unnamed aliens from the alternate universe in "The gods themselves"... they're, huh, alien.

Actually I rather liked the Predator and how he was in the original film. There was no explanation really for why he was on the planet or what drove his bloodthirst.. he was just interested in hunting, even if it meant lighting the fuse on his little wrist nuke to blow himself away..

Please no.

But the Predator would win. Victory favors intelligence and technology over brute strength and resilience.

Yeah Predator was pretty cool. And such an improvement over the original design they had for the creature. heh. Seeing the variations in the outfits and helmets in Predator 2 was also cool. It kinda looks like they build and modify their own gear kinda like how every Jedi builds their own lightsaber. Also, the first Predator movie had Ahnold, who is perhaps my favorite alien of all time.

And now I want to go watch Alien, Predator, Terminator, etc. They don't make em like they used to. Back in my day... grumble grumble grumble...

Are those the ones from Ursula LeGuin The Left Hand of Darkness? That book kind of worked my mind over a few times along the way. The people who go into a sort of estrus (kemmer, I think it was called?), and either one can become the male or female. And the outworld ambassador, who had to do a long trek across ice with his local radical political opponent. Who very professionally does what is needed to try to ensure their survival. And then goes into kemmer sex transformation, mid-camping trip....

That book was less "sci-fi" than exploration of a lot of what-ifs of anthropology and psychology. I kind of think only a female writer could conceive of that tale, and tell it in depth. Anyway, not a book you soon forget.

No Kermit, they were the blue squid-headed aliens in Mass Effect, this is an Ansari.

Blue aliens seem to be hypersexual. There was that blue gal in Farscape that was always going around screwing people with her ear. She was too new-agey hippy-dippy for me though.

Oh man... talking about hypersexual aliens, Chiana! Hottest alien babe ever. They never really went into her race (Nebari) much though. They were a bunch of controlling assholes with insane firepower apparently. Meh. One of them looked like Elvis.

Dragons of Pern?
They were genetically modified and engineered by science fiction.

I like the Andorians from Star Trek. They are quick to anger, patriotic, love weapons, are religious and are one of the few races in the Federation that still maintain their own military. Where most other trekkies dream of being in Starfleet, I would want to serve on an Andorian vessel. I like their attitude. They seem very right-wing.