Star Trek monster survey

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what is your favorite Star Trek monster?

  • The Gorn

    Votes: 6 42.9%
  • The Horta

    Votes: 4 28.6%
  • The Salt Sucker

    Votes: 4 28.6%
  • The Mugato

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • Name your monster

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Total voters
    14
  • Poll closed .

Dana Jean

Dirty Pirate Hooker, The Return
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I always like this guy because he had that communicator in his broken off antennae .

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mjs9153

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Nov 21, 2014
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He thinks that the doctors have genetically engineered him,and are going to conduct further experiments on him..instead,it turns out he is a short,fat,pig looking guy..but he was snorting as Kramer carried him..it is pretty funny,you should watch the full episode..
 

Grandpa

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Mar 2, 2014
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Here is the Borg for those not familiar..View attachment 17570looks like a real rip off of the cameraman in Hellraiser that was turned into a demon by Pinhead..

Never saw Hellraiser. It strikes me that the movie and ST-TNG were somewhat contemporary, although I'm willing to be corrected. Was this "Pinhead" a cyborg?

Here's another shot of a quintessential Borg, Hugh, who discovers an "I" side of himself thanks to the tender ministrations of the Enterprise crew.

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The Born are cybors, more machinery than the Six Million Dollar Man, less human than the Terminator, and integrated into collective consciousness - think of an ant colony or beehive where the queen is telepathic and has fearsome technology.

A species without individuals that was bent on incorporating everyone's "biological and technological distinctiveness" to their own. Destroy one, destroy a ship, and the entire culture focuses on you. The collective either assimilates you or destroys you. It was a terrifying concept for an adversary.

I never thought about the Horta name like that before,even though I was an avid reader of the ERB Tarzan books as a kid! ha,that is funny,don't know how I missed it..after all,how many times did Tarzan make a meal of Horta,then wiping his greasy fingers,curled up in the bole of a great tree for a nap..

Not just a meal - as I remember, he feasted on the warm and dripping heart. Not exactly kosher. It's been a while since I read the books, though.

Another implacable enemy was the Doomsday Machine..though not very visually stunning,it looked kind of like an old hollow dog turd cruising through space,eating everything up..
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Yeah. '60s science fiction brought to TV. The concept was great. The execution was a bit painful.

Why did they have to send a whole ship in and implode the engines? Why couldn't they just catapult in a jar of antimatter?