I'm rather partial to the Tytlal from the Uplift universe. Anything clever, cute, and alien can't be bad.

As far as cool aliens go, you can't beat the Shivans from Freespace. They make the Kilrathi look like Amway.

Ohhh! Forget the Aliens, I vote for the Kzin. Best and most in-depth aliens I have ever heard of. -Colt

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I can't believe nobody has mentinoed this but:

Alf!!

You everyday cuddly, funny, sarcastic and food munching machine! (Didn't he have a thing for cats?)

Sadly now due to a lack of interstellar jobs he has been reduced to 10-10 number commercials with that football guy.

^ Someone get the tranquilizer gun, quick! -Colt

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Yep, Slartibartfast rocks.

I was thinkimg of mentioning the white mice, but thought better of it.

I'll add one: every alien in Galaxy Quest. Especially Sarris.

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There are many interesting aliens around, I can't really single out one, but I will mention a few that come to my mind.
I thought Greedo, from Star Wars, was quite well done. I like the aliens from the Aliens films too, of course, all of them.
And I'd like to "bump up" some slightly forgotten fellows from TV : the Ovions.

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Surely it has to be Azathoth Great Cthulhu?

or how about a Vogon?

daleks and Sontarans are good as well.

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Jar Jar Binks


Just kidding, :P

Gotcha, lol.

Anyway, I've never really thought movie aliens held a candle to aliens in novels, although that may change with CGI. Amoung my favorite aliens in novels would have to be the methane breathers in Cherryh's Chanur series. Most aliens in movies and television are MUCH too human like. I like the aliens in Farscape though, using muppets was a brillant move, even though they all bascially still act human.

Some of the best aliens on television I think, don't laugh, were on Doctor Who. Daleks, Sontorons, and the zygons had a living spaceship long before Farscape.

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Well, at least you didn't mention Ewoks...

Totally agree. If we were going there I might want to put in a vote for Niven's Puppeteers. OK - they weren't very alien, being recognisably grasping capitalists, but I found their extreme cowardice kind of endearing compared with the usual gung-ho crowd of aliens who tend to have issues about sharing the universe with other lifeforms.

How could I forget the Daleks! Those guys were the best (OK, so they couldn't go upstairs, but no-one's perfect) I hereby rescind my vote for the Shadows. Oh, and you forgot the Cybermen - creepy...

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They could by Season 25:

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Stitch (Lilo and Stitch) because he's a galatic terror and a heck of an Elvis impersonator. "Also cute and fluffy!!!!"

Deeana Troi comes to mind as well. The Beta-babe from TNG. Notice how she started the series in a left over TOS type micro-skirt, abandoned the uniform entirely for about 4 seasons, then went back to a standard uniform, although still cut a bit lower..... One of the greatest chests in this quadrant!!!
Didn't Kirk do a chick with more T**s than a doberman once?

There's the whole alien menagerie David Brin created for his Uplift stories. Some humanoid (the Tymbrimi, notable for a unique sense of humor), some not (Tandu, arthropod and extremely nasty). All told, one of the better sets of ET's around.

Has anybody every represented Insect/Arthropod type aliens as something other than nasty, bloodsucking, humanoid piercing monsters?

Marina Sirtis claimed that there was a precise mathematical correlation between how much skin Troi showed and her level of intelligence. She was a total dolt in the miniskirt, got much better when she changed uniforms, then went back to a skimpier outfit for one of the movies and promptly crashed the Enterprise.

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Yes. Off the top of my head, Philip J. Farmer's The Lovers comes to mind.
And since I was talking about Clarke, how about the octospiders from the Rama sequels?

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Yes, but not often. Until you asked that, I'd completely forgotten James White's Sector General series. This is a veritable bestiary of aliens, but the theme is that everyone has to get on. The heroes are doctors (Sector General is a mega-hospital in space) and problems are solved by reason, not conflict. It still manages to get pretty exciting.

But, in answer to your question, one of the major characters is an insectoid doctor who is cute and empathic, and is always skittering away from clumsy creatures like humans, because of its fragile exoskeleton (I actually think that would be realistic - scaled up arthropods would likely be more fragile than us)

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Aww, now we're just screwed.

How about Robert L Forward's aliens who dwell upon the surface of a Collapse Star in his novel Starquake. Beings the size of a rice kernal who have to contend with billions of gravities and plenty of heat.

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441!!!! :)

But darhhunter, we were talking about aliens. Everybody knows that the Pak are third stage, sterile, human beings! :wink:

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Shocked I am, that I have not heard the name Yoda.

My personal all time fav. Afterall, the little guy had some sage advice.
Such as:

Do or do not, there is no try
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Luke: I don't believe it
Yoda: That is why you fail

LeeLu from The Fifth Element. Milla in very little......nothin' finer.

If you rent the unedited version, you would be surprised how much you see. :-)

Great movie.

Coneheads? ops:

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Coneheads aren't aliens. They're from France.

Oops ops: --How about Puppeteers?

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441!!!! :)

Hmm...no one has mentioned E.T. yet. I wonder why...? :P :roll:

How about the aliens from Third Rock?

Or Mork from Ork?

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