Favorite aliens in all science fiction

[McClance]

Of the many alien races you've encountered throughout all science fiction (books, movies, television, computer games), which are your particular favorites? And, out of those, which is your top 3 favorite?


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My favorites:

Thranx (Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth)
Hrrubans (Anne McCaffrey's Doona)
Sslii (Anne McCaffrey's Planet Pirates)
Leviathans (FarScape)
Pilots
Ancients
Minbari (Babylon 5)
Species 8472 (Star Trek)
Xindi
Tholians
Horta
and
Asgard (Stargate)


Top 3:
Thranx
Hrruban
and
Leviathans

[the Fifth Race]

1) Asgard
2) Klingons
3) Scorpius (hybrid alien)
4) Romulans
5) Unas
6) Jem'Hadar
7) Goa'uld
8) Q
9) Wraith (life sucking brilliance)
10) Changelings/Shapeshifters (DS9)
11) Borg
12) Hirogen
13) Magog (creepiest of all!)
14) Shadows (also very creepy)
15) Tok'ra

Heck I could have made the list 50+ strong, but these are most of my very favorites.

[Blitz]

1) Romulans
2) Transformers (Do they count?
3) Nox
4) Neitzehans <sp? - Andromeda
5) Spaceballs

[MB.Eddie]

Stargate

Asgard
Replicators
Goa'uld/Jaffa
Nox
Ori/Ancients
Re'tu

Star Trek

The Borg
Klingons
Romulans
Vulcans
Andorians
Xindi

Others

Predators
Wookies
Ewoks
Moties (The Mote in God's Eye, by L. Niven and J. Pournelle)

[Starbase]

4) Neitzehans <sp? - Andromeda

Tyr Anasazi's race... Nietzschean, you were close Blitz, great choice as well, Tyr was a great character!

my top 20......
1] Dominion, the Vorta, Jem'Hadar and Founders.
2] Goa'uld
3] Klingons
4] Scarrens, Scorpius is da bomb!.
5] Borg
6] Q, whats not to love.
7] Asgard, Thor is the best.
8] Romulans and Vulcans, logical choice.
9] Predator, my favorite movie alien.
10] Wraith, alien Vampire carnage.
11] Magog, good call brother Fifth Race.
12] Breen, the most mysterious alien race.
13] Bugs/Starship Troopers, meteor flinging aliens.
14] Cardassians, Garak, Gul DuKat and Damar.
15] Shadows, B5's scariest.
16] Daleks
17] Cylons, original BSG cylons were better.
18] Unas
19] Species 8472, fluidic space aliens.
20] Vidiians, Phage carrying, organ stealing aliens, scary!.

[Anubis69]

I was quite partial to the covenant in Halo. They kinda ruined them in Halo 2 by making them talk English though.

Vorlons (AMAZING! I just love the Vorlongs in general)
Shadows (Classic ships. Terrifying. Trully terrifying.)
The Breen (Enigmatic little weirdos!)

[yaaayoubetcha]

THE aliens (from Alien series)
Vorlons
Atevi (CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series)
Daleks
Cybermen (real ones, not Cybusmen)
Killowog (from Green Lantern, poozer!)

[david2708]

Nothing touches the 'Aliens' from the Alien Quadrilogy