Strangest alien of Sci-Fi:

Alnilam · Post by **Alnilam** » 2003-01-30 04:29am

Hi.For you,what's the most strangest alien of Sci-Fi?.
For me,the aliens from "World at the End of Time" of F.Pohl,an almost godlike plasma-based beings that live inside of stars,are able to manipulate at their will energy and matter, can destroy stars,and even can create entire galaxies.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-01-30 08:58am

The Kaminoans. They appear to have no musculature, and vertebrate organisms can't function without such.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2003-01-30 09:59am

The Gonk was pretty weird (from the Strontium Dog series) too much of a shock & his heart would stop...then start again hours later...

"Oh me poor hearties"

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-01-30 10:30am

Chaos

erm, shapeshifting, infinate variety, and very fertile....

Sektor31 · Post by **Sektor31** » 2003-01-30 10:51am

Any Roswell SGA. After all, how the hell can they lift things with those small arms?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-01-30 01:23pm

I always thought the Vorlons were strange in the beginning. Then of course we all found out who they were and the peices fit into place.

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-01-30 01:32pm

For me its the aliens out of Robert L. Forwards "Roche World" Novels. Giant amoebas like creatures that are multihued and communicate through mathmatics, and when they get ols , condense into 'rocks' that dot the surface of a peroxide sea

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-01-30 01:47pm

For me it was the Shag Pile Horta from Star Trek TOS.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-01-30 02:16pm

Star Trek: TNG men.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-30 04:34pm

Klingons...apparently they can evolve a brow ridge in a couple hundred years without any obvious evolutionary pressure to do so.

Or Wookies. 6 1/2 foot tall arboreal dwellers? Most arboreal creatures are small, to fit between branches better.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2003-01-30 05:07pm

Darkstar (RSA, not the film) - There's just no way he can be human!

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-01-30 07:38pm

Starseeds

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-30 07:41pm

A mention to the Vorlons. Those suits are cool.

Not exactly Sci-Fi, but I'd say the Old Ones, from Lovecraft's At the Mountain of Madness.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-01-30 08:37pm

Cthulhu, and its race.
They are technically scifi and are very weird. I mean why would a species need higher brain capacity and ability if it is obviously the dominant predator of its area? Also, why would they lay waste to the Earth, it isn't very well explained.
They also have the ability to recombine their entire bodies.

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2003-01-30 09:34pm

just about any alien in ST!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-01-30 09:56pm

The Dark wrote:Klingons...apparently they can evolve a brow ridge in a couple hundred years without any obvious evolutionary pressure to do so.

Or Wookies. 6 1/2 foot tall arboreal dwellers? Most arboreal creatures are small, to fit between branches better.

Most trees are not several kilometers tall.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-01-30 10:05pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:I always thought the Vorlons were strange in the beginning. Then of course we all found out who they were and the peices fit into place.

I agree. The Vorlons were REALLY cool, ITB. Then they became more cool as you learned what they were.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-30 10:07pm

What are the Vorlons? I don't watch much B5, so it wouldn't be a spoiler. All I know is something like energy beings, or something.

Morat · Post by **Morat** » 2003-01-31 12:51am

The superintelligent shade of the color blue from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

johnmarkley · Post by **johnmarkley** » 2003-01-31 01:20am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:What are the Vorlons? I don't watch much B5, so it wouldn't be a spoiler. All I know is something like energy beings, or something.

One of the ancient races of the galaxy, who seek to teach the principles of absolute order and obedience to the younger races, and use these younger races to fight their ideological wars. Humans (and most other species of the galaxy) have been conditioned to see them as angels or gods, but their true form is a sort of glowing, flying jellyfish (or something like that.). Through much of the series they are portrayed as benevolent, but in the end they turn out to be just as violent and brutal as their enemies, the Shadows.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-31 01:36am

Well, I know that...

I meant phisically, sorry.