10 Star Trek Aliens Who Should Make A Comeback 

Every alien played by Jeffrey Combs should make a comeback!

Everytime I see the Breen, it reminds me of Pricess Leia when she tried to rescue Han.

You know who we really need to see? The Xindi!

IMO the andorians should be featured more prominently, also. I would like to see an andorian officer as part of the crew of a starfleet ship (no, Hemmer doesn't count, he is aenar, not andorian). The encounters of captain archers enterprise with them made clear that they are much closer to humans in terms of mentality than for example the vulcans. In theory this should mean an andorian officer should get along pretty well on a starfleet ship, but there could also be differences that could cause issues and exploring those could lead to a good understanding or the race.

The Borg, I really don't feel we've seen enough of them

The Sheliak would be interesting too and just in time for Strange New Worlds as that was around the time of the writing of the treaty.

I would love to see parasite aliens from "Conspiracy"

I just want Jeffrey Combs on every Star Trek

Another vote for the Horta. I can’t remember the name but there is a beta canon novel with a Horta ensign. Instead of viewing a monitor when scanning a planet she “tasted” a sensor made for her and got the data that way.

The Voth need to be revisited with Laura Dern and Sam O'Neill in the show.

The Horta, having a non humanoid around means the writers have to really stretch their creative muscles.

Col. Kira knows what the Breen look like. Other questions to answer. Why did the Jem Hadar stop using their cloaking powers? How many Vorta have psychic powers?

I'd like to see the Horta again. I like that in the episode Devil In The Dark, humanity was the titular villain.

The Kremin from Voyager "Year of Hell" or the Voth

I say it every time a list like this appears, but the Vaadwaur need to make another appearance. They were set up as a major future threat in the Voyager episode "Dragon's Teeth" and promptly forgotten about. I know they did appear in STO, but that's not supposed to be canon.

I'd like to see a return of the Suliban, (whatever's left of them) and the Ocampa. How have they developed as a race after losing the Caretaker's protection.

Great pickup on the Binars being gentle Borg, exactly what I was thinking

The aliens from the Voyager episode "Blink Of An Eye". I bet by the 32nd Century they'd be equal in power to the Voth.

Here's some aliens I'd like to see more of: The Kzinti--now that these fierce felines have been canonized by ST: Picard and Lower Decks, let's see some live action ones. The Husnock--yes, I know they were exterminated by Kevin Uxbridge in "The Survior," but there must be a way to bring them back via time travel, mirror universe, alternate timeline or whatever. The Hur'q--another extinct race of aliens which could be brought back through various plot devices.

7:00 "Whether their homeworld survived the supernova..." Well no, of course not. The supernova obliterated Romulus and Remus was the adjacent planet.

Respect to Commander Donatra in Nemesis. Was not the E alone that defeated the Scimitar.

I'd like to see the Hirogen back. Picard encountered them - there must be some stories with them and Starfleet! (also totally with you on the fish there, Ellie!)

I want to see the Hirogen, the Vidiian (now that they're supposedly cured of the Phage), the Vaudwaur, the Suliban, the Tholian, and the Jurati-Borg

The one thing from this video I truly need more info on is the concept of a British person who doesn't like fish and chips! 😂🤣

Some of these were already mentioned, but just to name a few, I'd love to see more of the Jem'Hadar, Vorta, Breen, Cardassians, Lurians, and the Q.

I saw the Tosk and the Hunters as an integration between the two - the Tosk could be the species used for genetic testing on new advances for the Jem Hadar while the Hunters were the ones who had two jobs - game keepers beta testing the Tosk before putting those genetic advances in the Jem Hadar - and also by doing that they could also be enforcers against the Jem Hadar if they strayed.

How about the Vidiians? Assuming the leader of the Think Tank was being honest when he said they had cured the Phage, what is their civilization like now? Might be interesting to see what became of them.

Hope you're feeling better Ellie! As always, thank you all so very much for the videos. I wonder what happened to the Horta.

1) Shran 2) Q 3) Garak 4) Doomsday Machine 5) Gary Seven

Interesting little factoid. there was a Star Trek video game (almost certainly not canon lol) that came out back in the 90's on the NES (i think they called it Star Trek the 25th anniversary. not to be confused with the one that came out on the Game Boy) where Kirk and his crew actually return to Sigma Iotia II. As they're approaching a time rift opens and yeets them somewhere else, and the game is about them getting back to Sigma Iotia II to figure out what happened and fix it if possible. And it all revolves around the Communicator that McCoy left behind in A Piece of the Action.

Although it would have to be a trip into the past, I'd like to see something more to the tribbles. It would only need to be one episode, but finding some way to watch the tribble homeworld would make for interesting lore

The Iotians were technically explored again in Beta canon. In the Star Trek 25th Anniversary game on NES, the Enterprise goes back to Sigma Iotia, only to discover the entire race was annialated by using tech they had created out of McCoy's communicator. An anomoly sends the Enterprise into Romulan space, and you have to carefully work your way back to Sigma Iotia, time travel, then win the communicator in a game of fizzbin, to win the game.

10. Aiotians 9. Anticans & Selay 8. Bynar 7. Tosk & Hunters 6. Remans 5. Breen 4. Jem'Hadar 3. Vorta 2. Founders 1. Voth Honorary mentions: Vaadwaur, Kobali, Krenim

Let's bring back Ziggy Pop and Jeffrey Combs. Best Vorta portrayals in my opinion.

I really do wish the 32nd century era would catch us up on even known races. The Federation president has Cardassian facial features, so did Cardassia Prime join the Federation at some point? What became of the Klingon Empire? Did the Kzinti eat them?

Back while it still had the license to the Trek TTRPG, FASA released a TNG supplement that featured the Aiotians in the alien races section and they reimagined them as imitators of Starfleet.

Lower decks should make comeback for season 6 and 7

The Iconian storyline is one of the best plotlines of star trek online seeing some version of them would be very cool

I love how basically every single one of these *DID* make a comeback. Granted, Ellie is unsatiable, as all Star Trek fans should be, and therefore she always wants more. But it's good to see that the Lower Decks writers can feel the pulse of the fandom and are very willing to give us these little gifts. 😁

Those Jellyfish things from Encounter at Farpoint. Also the Gomtuu bio ship, maybe they were used by the Progenitors

Janeway & Paris' offspring, they have to return somehow, and not as some animatronic on the now museum ship Voyager... :P

Since the voth are also earthlings, that means they too are descended from the progenitors. Perhaps we'll see them sooner than you think.

Would be fun to retrieve Jeffrey Combs as Weyoun 457 visiting Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. He is a clone so… he can be remade again and again…

I'd like to see the Jarada finally make an on-screen appearance

Tholians, Gorn, and Son'a.

Half of the list it's already covered... But I must agree about the vogth, personally I think than it's a better plot point for S5 of Discovery

So, basically, you want a gamma quadrant spin off.

I think perhaps the 'Wraith' shapeshifting creatures from Enterprise, S1, E17, 'Rogue Planet' would be an interesting species to follow-up upon. I'm not sure if they had another name; we never learned what they called themselves in that episode.

I would like to see a prequel mini-series about the Iconians at the peak of their power.

the latest Star Trek: Defiant comic is about to have an arc with the (potentially extra galactic) parasitic worms, while the Star Trek comic is about to feature shinzon and the remans

In a old novel attempt I made (and probably will return to) I had the chief engineer as a reman named Z'vris whos family took advantage of the Reman coup in 2379 and fled with others to neutral territory outside of the star empire. I'll likely release a few things outlining the stuff including bios of the crew

No love for Bolians? It's high time we've had one on the main cast!

7:30 Weyoun saying that the Breen homeworld is not the frozen wasteland it is assumed to be I always believed was just part of his B.S.

Unfortunate timing with the "no signs of stopping" line and assuming Lower Decks could serve as a 'place to show b-plotlines as a-plotlines for more contex' :'(

Some of the more level-headed writers like Steve Shives tend to oppose the tendency to revisit stuff like this, and while I see their point, I also end up disagreeing most of the time. Should we devote more time to new stuff and less time to nostalgia? Yes. Do I really appreciate getting updates on some of these threads? Also very yes.

I've always felt the Breen are a known species that were essentially a lost/forgotten colony and that's why they choose to hide their identity.

There were aliens in TNG’s episode Schisms. I don’t know their name. In fact there were only unanswered questions about who they were and what their motivations were. I always expected their return because of the unanswered questions, but this never happened. What a shame.

On one hand I'd like to see the real Breen , on the other it's great that they've been keeping it a mistery in the new series too. A compromise would be to slowly reveal what's going on, not in a couple of episodes.

7:53 Discovery Season Five shows how the Breen look under their helmets 😊

i want to see more about the blue gills

Agreed with the Voth #1 alien I would like to see again. I really want a story line on Humpback Whales! Probe from no where almost destories Earth trying to talk to Humpback Whales. And then leaves after Kirk brings two whales from the past to the future who tell the probe to go away. There are a ton of stories here. Same can be said for the Race that pumped up the Voyager Proble and sent it back home in the 1st Star Trek movie!

Off topic, Lt Ducane (from the 29th century) once said "we scan time, much like your sensors scan space". Dose that mean the 29th century was aware of the future burn or it being a potential timeline

The Denobulans and Antarians

As much as I like to see this Aliens again in Lower Decks and Prodigy, I like to see them in live-action shows, such as the upcoming Legacy and Starfleet Academy shows.

I want some tranya, served by people from the First Federation.

I hope we never see what the Breen look like - it's part of their mystique - kind of like never hearing Morn speak.

Gonna take a shot and say the Remens were not talked about because they were not evacuated before the super nova hit and likely very few were left and not enough to keep their race going.

I'd really like to see the Tamarians from Darmok(TNG). (also: Gorn and Tribbles)

I think it's possible that one day the changelings could become tolerant of the solids and peaceful but I still don't think they would be very trusting. They'd probably still be very isolationist. I would like to know what happened to the hundred. We know what happened to three of them but there are still 97 and accounted for. One of them of course is Otto, one is the infant changing that died and gave him his shape shifting abilities back, and one of course is Laz, who went out to find the others.

The question about the whereabouts of the Reman homeplanet in the 32nd century can be answered quite easily. Since Romulus got destroyed by the star of their starsystem going supernova and Remus was a planet in this star system... no chance. Even though it's Science Fiction with the emphasis on the latter, some astrophysical facts can easily be used.

We need a series focused on the Wadi. Each week could feature a new game which you'd have to learn the rules of as you play... With dangerous and profitable consequences. Alamaraine!

The Voth's power dampening tech is easy to get around...just go into battle with some slug throwers lol

I loved the Selay as I was a kid and saw this episode the first time. I want so see more from the Selay and the Saurians and the founders. Every species would be great except the Borg. They suffered enough 😆

You didn't mention the Q continuum, or a species I liked was the Metrons. 😁

Was that number 9 spot recorded before episode 3 of the latest Discovery season was released?

fish is good for the body one alien i love to see back is the denobulan i am not sure we have seen them since enterprise and dr phlox

" they show little sign of stopping anytime soon...." TODAY: ending lower decks. so gutted!!

The Star chart in discovery that showed the founders home world I had originally pointed out after the episode that it does mention Kazon space also

Honestly I want a gamma quadrant exploration series. But then again we also massively need a whole new galaxy map too. There are tons of species we got one offs about. Like the race Bashir cured of the blight. Imagine a trek through gamma quadrant territory similar to the very narrow path of territories Voyager flew through in the Delta. We need to see what the outskirts and border powers are around dominion territory. Did they encompass the entire territory? Are we expected to think that Dominion bordered territories held by powers like the Vaudwaur? Krenim? over in the delta quadrant. So a "Fringeworld" that explores the powers in areas we did NOT see. Like behind Gorn, breen, or north of Klingon Romulan territory in the unknown delta quadrant space. According to the old map there is an unknown space that runs the length of the galaxy, south of the Gamma side of wormhole, north of Breen territory, approaching the galactic core, then south of borg territory, North of Gorn, then Romulan, and so forth. Its a large space (if the map is still accurate) for many regional powers and maybe one to two as yet unknown galactic powers. Its the last majorly untouched regions of the milky way before we have to start branching out to Triangulum or Andromeda.

Hello, Bajoran workers.

There was an Iotian security officer in the Corp of Engineers novels and he was easily the best part of any novel he was in. As was a Binar pair, the novels really explored a lot of species that the shows kind of forgot about.

Nice adroll at the end there, comedy. Cheers.

Tamarians. they had that one episode in NextGen and I think I heard someone say they were in lower decks once although that show is crap it doesn't belong in the franchise so I never saw it but I would love to see more of them. There was one in some books I read which was a great addition to Beta Cannon

The Xindi!! Bring back the Xindi

What about some of the TOS brief but hinted characters like the organians or the metrons or theKrell (a private little war) don't just look to later episodes for inspiration look at some of the OG characters who can inspire new stories.

More changelings and TRIBBLES! Maybe…more assimilated races as Borg? A Klingon, Jem’Hadar, or Hirogen Borg would be badass.

I cant spell the name the space enity on tng where data couldn't pick him up starts with N . The entity that was killing people and said half the crew would die and from tng when roker worf and data had between space aliens was doing medical experiments on them

Thanks. 🖖🏻

Hear me out. A series revolving around an older Weyoun that has been split from the founders and trying to fufil Odo's will while coping with his independence.

Voth, Turei, Vodwar probably misspelled but all three appeared in beta canon as well

The First Federation, the Nanite civilisation on Kavis Alpha IV from TNG S03E01 “Evolution”, the Terratins on Verdanis from TAS S01E11 “The Terratin Incident”. Did either or both of the latter two become members of the Federation?

"You know what I'd LOVE to see more of? The Voth" Has any Trek fan said that? I didn't think they made that much of an impact in Trek at all for a mention, let alone the #1 spot...?

I would like to know more about the Dowd.

I wonder, would the era that Discovery is set in potentially be suitable for the Mintakans to achieve faster-than-light travel? I think it's implied they're a fairly rapidly developing people.

I could mention a lot of one episode species but it would be a long list

We need to bring back the Horta!

It would make sense if the Breen Home world was truly temperate if Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo left Earth to settle on that world and create a new species see if anyone figured out who the those names refer to

What was the reason for the Gorn not being able to make the list? Are they allies with the Federation?

Species 8472

i feel like we maybe close to finaly lern how a breen look like with season 5 of discovery and one of the new villains