When Star Trek Alien Designs Got WEIRD

I think the animated series is great and we really dodged a bullet where they could have had like cute little silly aliens come in and everything or I think there was a proposal to have each character paired with a kid.

Instead we got what feels like a 4th season with good writing and a big effects budget

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"A giant earthquake isn't going to plunge California into the ocean."
You say that, but uh...it has happened in the past 😅.
There's ruins underwater in the UK and Greece of coastal towns that sank into the sea due to heavy stormy weather, massive landslides, and earthquakes.
And at least one of the ice ages is believed to have been caused by an glacial ice shelf being shifted loose by an earthquake before making its way over North America.

Theory: Insects in particular tend to vary greatly in size even within a specific species, and especially where gender is concerned. If applied to a space-born species like those 'ancients', they could have had several castes, with queens being extremely large, and thus their architecture would have to allow for the large queen to go wherever she wanted. A good example of this in Scify are the Xenomorphs.

Intercourse with a Hanar is technically a gang bang.

The Animated Series was awesome, and the willingness to create new, strange, aliens that weren't basically humans with different ears or bumps on their heads was a huge part of it.

Thanks. One correction: there were no witches burned at Salem. ❤

TAS was really creative in world-building and inventing new aliens, while Lower Decks only harvested the memberberries.

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Could it be any weirder than that dumpster fire STD ? They even managed to turn the acronym in to an unintentional joke......that`s how dumb they were.

I don’t nececerslly consider the events of the series canon, but consider nearly all of the concepts to be canon

I loved TAS, but I was right in the demographic it was aimed at. I turned 8 in 1973.

I've only watched through TAS once, but I remember quite enjoying many of the non-humanoid or more fantastical aliens presented. It was fun to see some of them again. Thank you for the video!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

8 legs = arthropods.

Some good aliens 🧐
Some are from the minds of the 70s 🤪

Oh, thank the gods! Someone who understands how animals' back legs are designed!

I get annoyed at the were-animal trope of knees breaking and reversing...

For some reason when i try to imagine the Oankali from Butler's XENOGENESIS books, i picture a Lactran.

The Matter energy organism from One of our planets is missing reminds me strongly of TOS' The Immunity Syndrome life draining organism.

Animation is a vastly underrated genre, especially in ScyFi it allows to circumvent special effects constraints.

What do you have against felines? The Capellan Power-Cat deserves a mention.

"Weird" alien designs didn't begin with Star Trek.

Regarding "Magiks of Megas-Tu", the executions of the Salem Witch Trials were by HANGING, not burning at the stake.

STAS is cannon it appears on screen live action or animation its 100% Cannon .

They just let loose with TAS, so many one off aliens that sadly not seen after, like the Ursinoids from Mudd's passion, like 5 frames of screen time. Think they were going for even more when the Motion Picture came out, and then sadly with TNG and the ones after they really dialed back to just forehead/nose appliance aliens. Voyager started getting back there with the Voth and now Strange New Worlds revisited the Gorn, but definitely a dry spell for variety when they 'no masks' mandate was issued.

The Megans remind me of Spaaaasce Ghooooost! 😜

Saw it in the early 80s, not knowing it was from 73, and thought the navigator was a ripoff of ET

Given today’s videographic technology, aliens could’ve far more numerous, we could easily make a live-action Edosian like Arex now.

I love how TAS took full advantage of the medium of animation to create races that weren't "humans with bumps on their heads," letting creativity flow and making the federation and the galaxy as a whole feel a lot more alien and lived in

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It's crazy seeing how many species and sight gags in Lower Decks came from TAS. I didn't realize how many references I was missing out on

A couple episodes of TAS are incredible.
I mean it won an emmy for a reason.

There are also the animals from different planets...c the swoopers, the various dragons and dinosaurs, the halo fish and the sehlat , some of which later became canonical.

I've even heard a few months ago that Commander Thelin night be an Aenar... But he's apparently hot blind or telepathic.

Well, the cartoons could do things the show couldn't. And they are canon, Edosians and Caitians both appear throughout extended material and Caitians even appear in the background of Star Trek IV.

pure wild and wacky science fiction. Something that we've kind of left behind over the years. Don't get me wrong, I love the expanse to bits. Hard sci fi is great. But sometimes you just need a guy that has little arms coming out of his torsoless legs.

''the kukulkans''
well i guess 70s usa public would find it pretty exotic but its like having a species thats called the loki's or the Amon, it rocks tho indigenous americas deities are really extra and i like when they pop up in media inspiring characterdesings (when done right)

Lower Decks is awesome!

Crazy how the only time this show got referenced by other trek shows is with Lower Decks

“There was no Ark” is crazy🤪🤪🤪

Great video, Tyler! I really love your media!

you forgot about the liliputians they also appeared in lower decks

You skipped over the Vandorians. The floating Octopus like creatures with ability to change molecular structure into anything or one that's same size and general mass. One came aboard Enterprise in guise of Industrialist Carter Winston.

Now the real question, can that female Pandronian reproduce with me specifically?

Absolutely beautiful! THIS is why people like you and myself should be brought in to catalogue and organize the official alien directory of the Star Trek universe. :) Thank you!!!

The Thylosians are a wild example of our imagination and a simple introduction to what a universe full of weird species really would be like.