Favorite science fiction aliens?

[TBRS1]

Klaatu. (The Day The Earth Stood Still)

Threatened the earthlings with extinction if they didn't get their act together. Smart fellow.

I prefer the classic Klaatu to the remake Klaatu, it seems like you do too.

Oh. That was just sooooo bad.

 

[TBRS1]

Actually, my favorite aliens are the Heptapods in Arrival. That film is certainly mind bending. It reminded me of Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse 5 who was unstuck in time. I like cerebral SciFi, but some action as in the second mad Max, Road Warrior, and, Aliens, are quite the wild ride. My favorite Sci Fi movies/series, in no particular order are:
Forbidden Planet,
2001,
Blade Runner, (both)
The Martian,
Contact,
Interstellar,
The Expanse,
Aliens,
The Road Warrior,
Arrival,
Silent Running,
Westworld (series),
Cloud Atlas,
Brazil

This is a mighty fine list. Be sure to add "Them," with the giant ants!

 

[Shamar]

In the series by Vendor Finger that begins with Fire Upon the Deep, there are aliens called "Tine" who are, essentially, small packs of dogs that act as a single sentient being.

These are my favorite aliens because who doesn't love sentient puppy aliens?

Anybody else have favorite aliens? Who and what?

The Puppeteers from Larry Niven. They were manufacturers and traders. They were absolute cowards, and any act of bravery (no matter how small) was deemed a form of insanity, yet they practically ruled the galaxy. They bred one warlike species into being fairly peaceful by killing off the arrogant ones, goading them into attacking Earth and losing. They were also attempting the breed some humans for luck. A complex, but well thought out and internally consistent species.

 

[Crossbreed]

But if I have to pick one, it might as well be one of the first...

If you want old-school,...

The Absurd 2nd Century Space Opera You'll Never Read

 

[SusanLR]

I don't remember a lot about it but a while ago I read a book where submarine divers found an abandoned spaceship at the bottom of the ocean, within was a sphere that enabled anyone who entered it to make their thoughts a reality. The previous owners of the spaceship (most probaply human time travellers) fell victim to the sphere they captured. It was filled with a supernatural entity from space. After the first team member entered it strange things would happen.

Imagine everything you believe becomes a reality immediately!

I remember neither the title nor the ending.

So that was not an actual alien, more like an alien enigma.

It was called The Sphere. I enjoyed the movie.

The Predator is another good one.

I have so many it would hard to think of them all. I like Sci-Fi.
But since the subject was brought up, I can't resist going back to my childhood favorites in all of the Star Trek series.
Spock and Data. Top two.

 

[AGXStarseed]

The Thing.
Created in the 1938 novella Who Goes There? and later appearing in comics and - more notably - a trio of films (the 1951 film The Thing From Another World, the 1982 film The Thing by John Carpenter and later appearing in the 2011 prequel film that was also titled The Thing), this shapeshifting alien monster was definitely impressive in the way it would adapt and change itself - while been truly terrifying at the same time as you truly couldn't trust anyone.

Here's a review of the comic book version:

 

[Dagan]

The Thing. I had the novella from John W. Campbell when little. The B/W film was okay for its time, but until the John Carpenter film, it couldn't be executed to show what Campbell wrote about. Now, all of these years later, the lost chapters of an expansion of Campbell's story that he was writing to be a full length novel, they have been found and compiled. It's supposedly titled, Frozen Hell. It's also supposedly sold film rights already, so I expect we'll see it before too long.

 

[Aneka]

It was called The Sphere. I enjoyed the movie.

The Predator is another good one.

I have so many it would hard to think of them all. I like Sci-Fi.
But since the subject was brought up, I can't resist going back to my childhood favorites in all of the Star Trek series.
Spock and Data. Top two.

That was it! Although I only read the book.

 

[betazoid]

My username is a clue, lol. I like the Betazoids from Star Trek. And Vulcans. I also love the Delvians and Hynerians from Farscape.

 

[TBRS1]

My username is a clue, lol. I like the Betazoids from Star Trek. And Vulcans. I also love the Delvians and Hynerians from Farscape.

My wife and I are currently re-watching Farscape!

Have you watched Babylon 5? That's a hot series as well.

 

[GrownupGirl]

Alf, Marvin the Martian, Kudos and Kang.

 

[Jumpinbare]

Vulcans. No question. Gotta be vulcans.

 

[TBRS1]

Vulcans. No question. Gotta be vulcans.

I always wonder how they get their hair so shiny.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

of course, Spock from Star Trek.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I always wonder how they get their hair so shiny.

Bacon grease?

 

[Cryptid]

The Loroi . . . telepathic "Space Elves" in a society dominated by women warriors.

SOURCE

 

[autism-and-autotune]

The most scariest aliens that are science fiction to me are the aliens with Sigourney Weaver. I remember when I was a kid, I would get so creeped out by the xenomorphs. They are stealthy and smart with how they take down their prey. Just imagine one of these bad boys chasing you. I would be crying.

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awwwwww yyeeeeaaaaah!! Best aliens ever in the scince fiction.

 

[autism-and-autotune]

In my opinion, one of the scariest aliens is probably the Thing.

 

[GrownupGirl]

I watched the Lilo and Stitch movie for the first time, so Stitch has become my new favorite.

 

[tazz]

Bacon grease?

Mmm... bacon...