3 science fiction aliens we wish were in the Star Trek franchise

Star Trek is known for some of the best aliens in sci-fi but what three do we wish would’ve been from the franchise?

Star Trek is known for a variety of alien baddies, and among the best are Klingons, Vulcans, and the Borg, but they aren’t the only good aliens the series has ever created. The franchise is arguably the best in the world of science fiction at establishing great aliens. That doesn’t mean they’re the only ones who have or the only ones who have done a great job creating aliens.

So we’re going to take a moment and pick a few species that would’ve brought a whole new world of intrigue and potentially horror to the franchise.

Let’s also get this out of the way, ALF was on this list. He was going to be the feature of the list. ALF having a morality argument with Jean-Luc Picard would have been the most 1980s thing ever. Yet, the fanfic of Starfleet Admiral ALF will forever go unpublished, I’m afraid.

Three aliens that would have been perfect for Star Trek

Xenomorph

This is the alien that inspired the article, mostly due to how Star Trek: Strange New Worlds turned the Gorn into their own version of the Xenomorph. A fitting change up as opposed to the more conventional, “evil bad guy warrior race” that we see far too often. They use alien hosts to incubate, they travel very well in low light and are basically too much to fight on their own with no weapon. Just like the Xenomorph, yet seeing the black, lizard-like alien in Star Trek would make things interesting. After all, the Xenomorph is more animalistic in nature than Star Trek aliens. They aren’t able to think and create like other aliens, making them truly scary, as they can’t be reasoned with.

Cylon

The fact that the more modern version of the Cylon, the 2004 Battlestar Galactica versions, will never again be seen outside of that mini-revival is sad. They would’ve been perfect villains in Star Trek, because how would you know they were aliens or not, sent out to destroy humanity. It takes the stories of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and They Live and takes it to a more horrifying conclusion.

Castithans

For fans of the SyFy series Defiance, you may remember the Castithans; the white-skinned, white-haired alien race of aristocrats that look down at everyone in the town of Defiance who isn’t them. Just about all the villains that we’re accustomed to on a large scale are warriors, spies, or soldiers. Yet, none of them, at least that we see regularly, are just rich, racist, jerks who are better off than those we meet. That’s what the Castithans bring, an entire race of people who would have looked down on the Federation, while living on their lush planets, and living a life of decadence. Ya know, until their planet gets blown up.