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Many ofStar Trek ’s most well - know alien seem basically human , but sometimes Starfleet encounters truly alien creatures who do not resemble humanity at all . Star Trek : The Next Generationseason 6 , installment 20 , " The Chase " supply an in - universe account for why so manyStar Trekaliens look like mankind with bumpy brow . Billions of years ago , a humanoid species now bear on to as the Progenitors seeded planets across the galaxy with desoxyribonucleic acid that would germinate into lifeforms similar to themselves . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5has provide more insight into these mysterious ancient humanoid and their technology .
The pragmatic rationality that so manyStar Trekaliens are humanoid is , of line , that all actor are human , and , as a television series , there were practical and budgetary limits to howStar Trekcould make aliens . More than a few vigour - ground beings pop up onStar Trek : The Original Series , but they often possessed humanoid host or shifted into a human physique so that actors could portray them . Even the Q and the Changelings , who could take near any form , take humanoid forms when interacting with world . InmodernStar Trek , humanoid noncitizen remain the norm , even as make - up and special outcome technology has advanced . But it ’s always fascinating to seeStar Trekaliens who bear little to no resemblance to humanity .
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10The Horta
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 25 - “The Devil in the Dark”
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In one ofStar Trek : The Original Series’most iconic episodes , Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) and the crew of the USS Enterprise travel to a mining facility to look into a serial publication of decease . Once there , they find a foreign subterraneous creature that is a Si - based lifeform . When Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) psyche - meld with it , he discovers that the brute is yell the Horta and only killed the mineworker to protect its eggs .
" The Devil in the Dark " contains the first use of the phrase,“I’m a doctor , not a … ,“when Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) says,“I’m a doctor , not a bricklayer ! "
At the goal ofStar Trek ’s " The Devil in the Dark , " the miner accord to go out the Horta and its orchis alone , and after the new Horta hatch , they help make tunnels within the mine . While the Horta may look like nothing more than a moving molten rock-and-roll , it remains one ofStar Trek’smost unparalleled extraterrestrial . With its classicStar Trekpremise , " The Devil in the Dark " remains one of the enfranchisement ’s most memorable episode .
9The Kerkhovians
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Episode 5 - “Charades”
When Nurse Christine Chapel ( Jess Bush ) and Lt . Spock ( Ethan Peck ) do a flyby of the Kerkhovian moon inStar Trek : Strange New Worlds , their shuttlecraft gets pulled into a dangerous vortex . While Chapel is safe and sound , Spock has been turn all human . Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) then contacts the Kerkhovians who"repaired"Spock , but they say that since"remediation"was made , no further touch will be necessary .
The Kerkhovians once ramp up a civilization on the moon of the major planet Kerkhov but later moved to interdimensional space . As knock-down non - bodily beings , the Kerkhovians were able to remediate the shuttle and heal Spock , but they were confused by Spock ’s combining of Vulcan and human DNA . Chapel eventually flew a shuttle into interdimensional space and convinced the Kerkhovians to reelect Spock to his proper half - Vulcan / half - human res publica .
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8The Tholians
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 9 - “The Tholian Web” & Star Trek: Enterprise
The Tholians are a crystalline species with a hard outer shield and six leg who thrive in an extremely live environment . After Starfleet became cognizant of the Tholians in 2152 , they had several conflicts with one another over the next century . In theStar Trek : The Original Seriesepisode , " The Tholian Web , " Captain Kirk and his crew reply a distress call from the USS Defiant only for the Tholians to show up and range the enterprisingness to depart their system .
Tholian vessel can weave an push web to entrap much larger ships .
regularize by the Tholian Assembly , the Tholians are fantastically territorial and are known to vote down outsiders for tresspassing in their distance . Although small , Tholian vessels can weave an energy connection to snare much larger ship . TheStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 4 two - parter , " In a Mirror , Darkly , " reveals that theDefiant frustrate over to the Mirror Universeand was relieve by the Tholians before being stolen by the Terran Empire .
7Gomtuu
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 20 - “Tin Man”
InStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s " Tin Man , " the Betazoid Federation emissary Tam Elbrun ( Harry Groener ) come aboard the USS Enterprise - D to initiate First Contact with a sentient spaceship referred to as Tin Man . When Elbrun communicates with Tin Man , he discovers that the creature is called Gomtuu and that it may be the last of its variety . After its work party was kill , Gomtuu wandered the galaxy for millennia before finally make up one’s mind to end its own life story .
With a hard and protective outer cuticle , Gomtuu can maturate furniture and equipment inside to endure a carbon - free-base crew . Gomtuu possesses powerful defensive ability and the power to transmit people even through shields . At the remainder ofTNG ’s " Tin Man,“Elbrun determine to join Gomtuu , and the two depart to explore the galaxy . As Elbrun has spend his life feel overwhelmed by his inviolable telepathic major power , he find peace with only Gomtuu as a fellow .
6The Organians
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 26 - “Errand of Mercy” & Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4, Episode 11 - “Observer Effect”
InStar Trek : The Original Series'“Errand of Mercy , " the USS Enterprise travels to the planet Organia , which lies near the Klingon border . Captain Kirk and Spock manoeuvre down to the satellite to convince the Organians to dissent the Klingons , but the Organians refuse any kind of violence . The Organians then let out themselves to be advanced incorporeal beingscapable of incapacitate both the Federation and the Klingon ship .
" Errand of Mercy " features the first visual aspect of the Klingons and also introduces the Klingon Kor ( John Colicos ) , who will by and by seem inStar Trek : Deep Space Nine .
Although the Organians had once been humanoid , they now existed as pure thought and their genuine appearance remain unknown . InStar Trek : Enterprise’s"Observer Effect , " two Organians have variousmembers of the Enterprise NX-01 crewas they note humanityto ascertain whether they are ready for First Contact . Impressed by the gang ’s pity , the Organians heal everyone that was sick and erase all memory of the showdown from the crew ’s brain .
5The Ba’Neth
Star Trek: Voyager Season 6, Episode 6 - “Riddles”
Little is know about the reclusive Delta Quadrant specie known as the Ba’Neth , and they were even once reckon as a myth . In 2376 , the USS Voyager ’s Delta Flyer shuttlecraft encountered a Ba’Neth , which assail the mind ofLt . Commander Tuvok ( Tim Russ ) . As Voyager ’s crew works with a Kesat investigator named Naroq ( Mark Moses ) to aid Tuvok , they learn that the Ba’Neth render themselves invisible using cloaking technology .
Ba’Neth were known to have tentacle and possessed a big fleet of ships .
Although they typically remained cloaked , the Ba’Neth were sleep with to have tentacle and possessed a declamatory fleet of ships . Tuvok eventually remember the cloaking frequency used by the Ba’Neth , and Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) use it to find a Ba’Neth space station . After the Ba’Neth admit to attacking ships to valuate potential threats , Janeway negotiates with them for data to help Tuvok find .
4The Medusans
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3, Episode 5 - “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” & Star Trek: Prodigy
The Medusans made their first visual aspect onStar Trek : The Original Serieswhen Ambassador Kollos visited the USS Enterprise with a human engineer , Larry Marvick ( David Frankham ) , and a human telepath , Dr. Miranda Jones ( Diana Muldaur).As a non - somatic Medusan , Kollos had to travel within a special transferral chamber , and the appearance of Medusans push humans and other corporeal being frantic on sight .
medusoid were extremely skilled navigator and possess telepathic abilities . Zero ( Angus Imrie ) inStar Trek : Prodigywas a Medusan who escaped from The Diviner ( John Noble ) and made a jury-rigged containment lawsuit for themselves . Zero helped swain captive Dal R’El ( Brett Gray ) slip the USS Protostarand assisted the make - shift crew in their subsequent escapade and attempt to join Starfleet .
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3The Pah-Wraths
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
As enemies of the Bajoran Prophets , the Pah - ghost became major player in the terminal episodes ofStar Trek : Deep Space Nine . The Pah - wraiths were immaterial like the Prophets , but they more regularly possessed people to carry out their own ends . The Pah - shade seemed to sense only negatively charged emotions and those possessed by them often felt lingering furore and hate .
In one ofDS9’smost tragical moments , the Cardassian Gul Dukat ( Marc Alaimo ) eject a Pah - shade , which then possessed him andkilled Lt . Jadzia Dax ( Terry Farrell).This Pah - wraith assail the Bajoran wormhole , leading to a warfare between the Prophets and the Pah - wraiths . Dukat began working with the Pah - wraiths in their architectural plan to destroy the universe , but Captain Benjamin Sisko ( Avery Brooks ) deal to stop him by sealing the Pah - wraiths within the Fire Caves .
2The Sheliak
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3, Episode 2 - “Ensigns of Command”
InStar Trek : The Next Generation ’s " The Ensigns of Command , " the mysterious Sheliak physical reach out to the Federation asking them to remove human settler from one of their planet . Although the Federation has had dealing with the Sheliak in the past , they have struggled to find out usual soil . Not only are the Sheliak non - humanoid , but their language has proven inconceivable for Federation scientist to interpret .
The Federation finally set up the Treaty of Armens with the Sheliak , a 500,000 - Word of God treaty that took 372 Federation effectual expert to write . Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart)finds a loophole within the treaty that gives him the time he ask to evacuate the colonists . The Sheliak have not been referenced on screen sinceTNG , but they continue a captivating and complex alien species , despite their belief that humans are humble lifeforms .
1Species 10-C
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4
As the USS Discovery searches for the cause behind the Dark Matter Anomaly ( DMA),they discover the existence of a species located beyond the Galactic Barrier know as Unknown Species 10 - C.After their accelerator pedal giant planet became uninhabitable , Species 10 - C created an advanced hyperfield that protected them . They created the DMA to harvest boronite , which they want to power their hyperfield .
Species 10 - C are alien unlike any other .
AfterDiscovery crossed the Galactic Barrier , they eventually find a way to commune with Species 10 - C with brightness and emotion - conveyance of title hydrocarbons . Once Species 10 - C understood that their mining machine was destroying sentient being , they gibe to quit using it . With their atypical way of life of communicating and their world as a linked whole , Species 10 - C are foreigner unlike any other . Hopefully , Star Trekwill continue to incorporate alone non - humanoid aliens into its vast universe of specie and cultures .
All of the above Star Trek shows except Star Trek : Prodigy are usable to stream on Paramount+ .
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