Star Trek: 10 Alien Species You’ve Probably Forgotten About 

Don't worry, they'll all show up in Lower Decks eventually

As a Star Trek Online player. The Hur'q, preservers and many others are never forgotten. I see them daily in my Legendary Miranda class ship :)

This is a fine episode, I would add the Aquans, 10-C, Zora, Sargon's People (Arretans), & Alpha Centaurans (Greek-descendant Preserved humans).

"Convergent evolution towards budget savings."😄

I always thought a good story would be getting a Vendorian ambassador to negotiate a treaty between the Federation and the Dominion. Since the founders are mistrustful of solids who better to be the mediator than a being that is in between solid and fluid forms like the Vendorians.

I would add the Paxans from the TNG episode "Clues." Since this elusive race of xenophobes were willing to exterminate the Enterprise crew rather than allow knowledge of their species to be made known to others, it seems logical to include them on this list. They erased all knowledge of themselves from the minds of the crew--save Data who was sworn to secrecy. Ironically, this knowledge may have been destroyed along with Data himself in ST: Nemesis unless it was downloaded into B4, Lore, or some other Soong-class android.

I'm surprised you didn't include the Paxans from the Next Gen episode Clues. They did the whole memory erase thing like the race from Voyager.

I think Enterprise going back and picking up the humans and the Scagarans would awesome movie plot.

_Lower Decks_ makes a list like this hard, but I'll throw on the Skorr (who are _separate_ from the Aurelians), the Tyrans (inventors of the Exocomp) and the Coridanites (the species whose admission to the Federation was the plot of "Journey to Babel").

I'll be honest when I hear the word Fabrini, it makes me think of the febreze. Though fabrini does sounds like a smaller cuter version of febreze. Or reverse the roles and Febreze sounds like a war faction of them. We are the Febreze prepared to be scented.

8:34 The Skagarans made their way into a novel from SNW called “The High Country”, and Pike grew up near one of them (even learned to ride a horse from her). If you haven’t read it yet, check it out; it’s a VERY well-written piece!

I love the TNG episode with the Solanogen-based aliens. The buildup to showing the aliens was atmospheric and chilling as Hell

You can tell Sean had fun making this one. And I had fun watching.

TrekCulture 289K subscribers It's a good think I'm one of those few people who do remember the Skagarrans and the Axanar. You also forgot to give an honorable mention to the Briori from "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "The 37's". It's a shame we never found out what the Briori looked like, as they were never seen nor even mention again after that.

The one I wanted to see more of was the Sheliak. They're like a race of lawyers. Plus we need more non-humanoid races.

The Bynars should have been seen again, they were unique.

I don't think that's a Satarran, but a mimic designed or engineered by them, which is why it looks like a skeleton underneath, it could become any bipedal race

GOOD LIST! Ironic how some of them wanted and made themselves to be forgotten. Looks like I'm not the first to add the Paxans.

i would add the sheilak who,supposedly beat the federation or at least forced them into a peace treaty on their terms.

Richard Hatch, Apollo from the original Battlestar Galactica as a Klingon. ❤️

I recently reread the novelization of TMP and The Lost Years, so I've been thinking about the Febrini.

The funny thing, #1 is an episode i keep coming back to watch and watch, i love the whole lose memories thing it did.

The little extragalactic Korobian aliens from Catspaw were never seen again as far as I know. I call them Korabians because that was the name of one of them.

People were quick to forget what the Trill looked like in TNG after DS9

I just rewatched That Enterprise episode

You were right about #1 anyway. I don't remember that episode at all. Literally all I know about it now is what little was in the video.

True, I recall the episodes, yet not the species name. 🖖 I will take the option of pasta and alcohol. 🙃

Flexing in for my requisite Star Trek Online plea -- the Hur'q featured prominently in the best of all the story arcs in STO. I'm happy to see that you've started mentioning the game's lore in your videos, but uh... how about a full vid on it? (Tee hee hee....)

Ahhh The Preservers. I kinda love how in B canon William Shatner did his story featurin them where Kirk was brought back after he died in Generations.

I would like to see a discussion on Star Trek Shape shifters and what one was best and to know does memory whip hide you from the borg?

The skagarans were a huge part of the novel strange new worlds the high country.

Hur'q where also in the PlayStation game Star Trek invasion released 2000. I didn't know they were in Star Trek online.

i was thinking would have loved to see the dawd( the guy from ng survivor's ep).

Um, wasn't the shroud of the Sword of Kahless returned the Alpha Quadrant by Vulcans, who then gave it to Kor? Not Kor retrieving it himself. Besides that, nice list.

Just this week a friend and I were trying to remember civilized species that'd gone extinct. Thanks to this list, I can +1 that

I would add tha Aldeans to this list, from the TNG episode "When The Bough Breaks".

Headcanon why the Warp 5 limit was forgotten: the Vulcans took a look at the research by the Hekarans, found way way WAY too speculative and based on worst case scenario since warp core detonation rifts disappeared within a few weeks of it as space fixed itself without help. In other words, it was essentially research based on fear of what the warp core could do if space wasn't the mysterious form it was and couldn't fix itself. So the Vulcans saved the Federation from their dumbness (only time they could because they failed to stop the idiocies that led to the Maquis).

Most important lesson from Force Of Nature: Down is good. Up is no.

besides the 200 species from the orginial series that all looked like humans

I like how many of these are from ENTERPRISE. As a result, it's more likely that some fans have never SEEN those aliens!

I met Alec Peters at Dragoncon.

10:43 that's ship look like almost a conestoga class.

In my head canon, the Hur’q interbred with the Klingons during their time as their conquerors. That would explain the Discovery Klingon.

The Fabrini sounds like a cocktail that tastes like cleaning products.

Now that I think about it... did Star Trek base the Hurq on the Invid of Robotech/Mospeda? Insectoid species that went nuts when they lost a plant/fungus that was vital to their species wellbeing to alien interference? Turned into a horde that preyed on the galaxy?

What was the species that had a very complex introduction ritual from TNG. I remember Picard being very annoyed about it.

I can't fly... Warp 5.5.

I have to say, I do remember some of those… mostly because I've played quite a bit of Star Trek Supremacy. How could anyone forget the Axanar when they are one of only a few ways to have more than a single Fleetyard-level shipyard?

Actually what the Heckarins were saying was a theoretical probability that was discussed between I had this discussion with a physicist a quantum physicist about the probability of there being a problem if one shirt used certain types of drives in a given area of space. Bearing in mind this is theoretical quantum physics and there is no way to test it out to see if it would be that way or not, I propose this based on certain factors in actual reality, things that we can actually see and therefore if they behave a certain way in that way that stands to reason that theoretically they would behave the same way more or less in theory in space with certain types of drives that would share certain parts of space. Like I said it wasn't you it was theoretical quantum physics.

My first thought on hearing the word Fabrini is "It's definitely Fabrini."

For some reason the Hur'q have always intrigued me. I think they would be a fantastic ancient species to eventually introduce... and making them decidedly non-Humanoid in appearance.

if you said "star trek fabrini" i would say "yonada and bones fell in love"

What about the Vedala, the oldest race in the Federation?

4:50 Hur'q ...🤔 Could this be a sub Klingon species and could be an explanation for the Discovery Klingons?

Interesting that the Klingons call them the hurk and the Swiss use the term Hybeuslander is a Swiss term that means literally Outsider much like the term hurt in Klingon.

What about the Husnok?

The Antarans have a role to play in one of the Enterprise follow-up novels. The novel has a plotline where one of Phlox's daughters takes an Antaran as one of her husbands but Phlox's youngest son leads a terrorist attack on the wedding party.

They could mention all this races and more in Disco. Disco is wasting a good opportunity to mention what happened to every race we know and that would make a terrific season in my opinion.

Eleazar? It's Eyezar. Sheesh!

The fact that he penned and wrote it down the old-fashioned way so that he would not forget proves beyond any any doubt that people really don't understand memory, the more you try to erase the memory there's always a backup area in the brain that has that memory. I know this because of the fact that I have worked with people with various forms of brain damage especially memory problems and I can tell you that the mind has a way of storing in the brain memories sometimes that is because of taste sometimes because of smell sometimes because of sight or touch there are also parts of the brain that store due to smell and emotion so I can tell you this because of the patience I worked with in the past who were Alzheimer's patients. So even if they try to erase the actual areas of the brain that do store memory the actual memory storage area there are plenty of other places called them redundancies if you will that are backup sensors for the brain's memory, and that is something that not Star Trek isn't any more about the science anymore in science fiction it's lost or has never had anybody who does research anymore otherwise they'd remember this, or know this.

In Archers defense and almost never defend him. He was probably more concerned over the interstellar incident the alien dying would cause. Figuring saving his life would smooth over any patients rights issues in face of first contact with this race. I still the coolest race that was in Ring World series but brought into Trek thanks to animated series is still the Slavers. The concept of them in my opinion appears to have inspired other works of fiction. Because odds are many people only remembers the animated series and not the book series.

Richard Hatch from Survivor s01!?

I am Ki-Rok!

Fabrini, but imagine a Jawa said it 😂

You know, a lot of these forgotten groups could be condenced.

How’s about the Sheliak?

Then there's the Terra Novans, the humans who were descended from a colony damaged by an asteroid that irradiated the northern hemisphere of the planet, what happened to those guys? Or did undercooked "diggermeat" do them in? :P

Yes the axinar. Whoooo. Their a species I'd like to know more about and see again.

Doesn't Voyager come across one of those make a list that makes them think makes their people think that they're part of a battle...

I wonder what happened to the Eminarians and Vendekans. Did they resolve their 500 year old conflict?

I've looked for a list of all the alien species. I can't find one.

Trelena you did not mention him

Ramurians were a recycle of those aliens in the episode CLUES.

I'd add Klingons to this list😜

there were 5 races that started the federation but now its only 4

Will no one remember the tragedy of the Husnock? The whole species wiped out in a moment!

STO Spoilers: How could i forget the preservers after STO fused them and the first human shaped aliens that originated everyones so destinctly human looks into one only to be wiped out by the iconians

the scottish play don't you mean mcbeath "laughs evil blackadder laugh"

Well I hope some of this alien species will be reintroduce in Lower Decks.

In before 100 views! w00t!

What about the iconians?? they destroyed the yamato,🤔

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So many "A"s in these names. :D

More like, 'Ten Species the writers have forgotten exist."

Who are the axenar as a alien species and can we please have a star trek and star wars crossover TV show or movie please.

Prelude to Axanar was awesome, darn shame the whole project turned into a dumpster fire

One day I'll watch a video that doesn't always seem to dribble and go on and on about Lower Decks all the time.....

"SHUT UP MEGANS!" wink

Every time a Vulcan was not able to keep up the bs that there completely emotional logical and perfect and acted like the biggest asshole in the episode . It’s every time

You didn't have a single race from the Gamma quadrant or DS9...that's trekist. And don't give me the Hur'q. By your own words, they only become relevant in the non-canon STO. How many aliens did we meet before the Dominion War started and people forgot there were aliens there besides the Dominion's triad.

10 species not worth remembering