Favourite Race

[La Patience]

Um this is a similar question from my last:
Whats your fav Star Trek race lol

Mines the cardasians because they look cool as do there ships hee

I thank all those who post there answers hee

 

[Borg_Queen]

My favorite race is the Borg! That is because I'm fascinated by technology and have always loved cyborgs.

 

[Dan1025]

My favorite race is the Borg! That is because I'm fascinated by technology and have always loved cyborgs.

Same here, the Borg were the coolest race in ST (imo anyway )

 

[Atlantis]

Romulans:

Secretive but powerful, masters of deceit, borderline paranoid... a very interesting race.

 

[Kosh Naranek]

Romulans:

Secretive but powerful, masters of deceit, borderline paranoid... a very interesting race.

I second that. I also liked the Romulans. Scarey how many aspects of my own RL personality are Romulan-ish, IMHO.

 

[Majestic]

Moved to Star Trek section.

 

[Creed]

sorry guys, has to be the bajorans... that lovely blend of mysticism and angst...


Violent rebellious independent folks with some very 'talented' female phenotypes

 

[Jetfreak]

I've always liked the Romulans for some reason, their secrecy and stealth are feared by many. That's why i like them.

 

[VenerableDread]

First choice has to be the Dominion, man their ships look pretty cool. Second has to be the Borg and thirdly the Federation.

 

[SquireJames]

Tholians, hands down. The only race in Star Trek (well other than the Horta) who were truely alien.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

i personally love the romulans. their ships are graceful and sleek. plus with the cloak, there's that option to "screen your phone calls" by not having to show yourself. particularly for the phoenix class ship. yeah. all around destruction.

 

[Eisenhower]

Romulans and Remans. I wish we had had more episodes dealing with both of these races.

 

[Aerilon]

I'm inclined to say the Cardassian or Breen actually. The Cardassian people have a strong culture; they're similar in many ways to both the Klingon and Romulan species; somewhat honourable in regards to their Military, but at the same time, cunning like the Romulans.

The Breen, simply for their mysteriousness. I'd say the Tholian's too, but we know hardly anything about them.

 

[Zelph]

I'd say the Cardassians for sure, liked them from the first time that I saw them on TNG as a kid.

 

[K_merse]

Borg, definitely. The most fearsome adversary ever created. Seriously, they're worse than the Cylons, the Shadows, the Emperor, the Goa'Uld, anything!
Only the bugs from Starship Troopers can be compared to the Borg.

 

[thunderfoot]

Rihannsu. Or to give them the name more familiar, Romulan. None of the series or the films have ever done enough of them or with them to suit me. They are incorrectly depicted as, ahem, "the bad guys" usually, because they are seen as actively and successfully opposing Starfleet's ceaseless attempts to subjugate the entire Alpha Quadrant. This is always shown as wrong or evil in Star Trek, lol.

Yet the Rihannsu helped Starfleet during the Dominion War. Further, they were willing to release the Federation from the conditions of the Treaty of Algernon and give their most significant tactical and strategic advantage to Starfleet to help the Federation fight and defeat the Borg. Defiant has a cloaking device only because the Rihannsu saw the threat the Borg represented to the Alpha Quadrant and decided to help face this peril. And why did not Starfleet go to the Klingons for a cloaking device? Simple, really. One does not borrow from the apprentice when one can do so from the master. Only in the various games and paperback novels does the true greatness of the Rihannsu become apparent.

Jolan Tru, Centurion. May you always be guided by the correctness of the Praetor's and the Senate's wisdom.

 

[Majestic]

Rihannsu. Or to give them the name more familiar, Romulan. None of the series or the films have ever done enough of them or with them to suit me. They are incorrectly depicted as, ahem, "the bad guys" usually, because they are seen as actively and successfully opposing Starfleet's ceaseless attempts to subjugate the entire Alpha Quadrant. This is always shown as wrong or evil in Star Trek, lol.

I agree, they aren't bad. You'll like why ENT mod, I with the help of Syf developed a history of the Star Empire, from the Empire's point of view. I plan on making each factions history based from their own perspective.

It's something I loved about B5, there were no evil groups, just groups working from their own perspective.

 

[Eisenhower]

Borg, definitely. The most fearsome adversary ever created. Seriously, they're worse than the Cylons, the Shadows, the Emperor, the Goa'Uld, anything!
Only the bugs from Starship Troopers can be compared to the Borg.

The Shadows were no joke either! remember their planet killer! the borg couldn't do that.

Starfleet's ceaseless attempts to subjugate the entire Alpha Quadrant.

 

[StarBlade]

They are incorrectly depicted as, ahem, "the bad guys" usually, because they are seen as actively and successfully opposing Starfleet's ceaseless attempts to subjugate the entire Alpha Quadrant. This is always shown as wrong or evil

Being unbound by ethical or moral concerns in your wilful attempts to subvert and manipulate the balance of power in the aforementioned quadrant tends to be sufficient to warrant a "bad guys" title. And they would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddlin' kids.

I like the original Romulans a fair bit better than the sneakier Next-Gen equivalencies. And the experience of the Dominion War evened the odds on who was "the bad guys" when Section 31 and various other shady elements within the Federation were brought to light. If anything, I hope the new Romulan Star Empire post-Shinzon is a lot more like the two nameless Romulan commanders we were introduced to in "Balance of Terror" and "The Enterprise Incident"-- respectable and fierce in their cunning, not quite as desperate and third-rate as TNG and DS9 would lead us to believe them to be. It seemed like the Romulans were always reacting to events rather than driving them, always trying to ruin someone else's day instead of having a day that was their own-- and rarely, if ever, did they succeed in ruining anything other than their own plans.

 

[thunderfoot]

The Rihannsu do have a code of ethics and a sense of morals. Else, they'd never been able to create a star spanning polity. Just because someone else views the aforementioned code as at variance with, "how decent folks act." does not indicate it is wrong or morally reprehensible. Within their own viewpoint, all people consider themselves "good" and others as incorrect, or less often, evil. Obi Wan mentioned a "certain point of view" once. Of course this does not excuse behavior which is obviously out of line with normal. Within their own viewpoint and frame of reference, the Rihannsu define their ethics and code as "good". They want the same things all people want. A place which is theirs alone. The ability to protect this place and weaker members of society from predation by outsiders. A sense of belonging to something. The only thing I would see as different from the Federation's viewpoint and frame of reference is the Rihannsu are very much more prone to adopt a stance of the ends justifying the means of achieving it. And if you stop and think on it a bit, we all know people just like this in our daily lives.

The Klingon Empire started as the original "Bad Guys" and it has been successfully remade into a 24th Century version of 16th Century feudal Japan. Thanks to TNG, DS9 and game such as SFCIII or A2, the Klingons are now viewed as one of the essential parts of the "Good Guys" in Star Trek. The instances which Starblade mentioned are part of the very few where the Rihannsu were portrayed as having honor or a code of ethical behavior similar to the one Humans are supposed to have. In all other cases, they've been portrayed as either madmen (Nemo, anyone?) or some sort of bungling criminal gang which only succeeds in defeating itself. I kinda think it was easier to do it this way during writer's meetings because hey, we're on a deadline here!

How very nice it was to watch Babylon 5 and see that evil depended upon one's perspective rather than a writer's precis of the new villains.

 

[Majestic]

How very nice it was to watch Babylon 5 and see that evil depended upon one's perspective rather than a writer's precis of the new villains.

Oh I agree, it was one of the aspects that made that series so great and one that will continue to keep that series on my two two list of best sci-fi series ever! I just hope the re-boot Trek follows this suit as we start to see 23rd century species in the next film due out next year.

 

[Eisenhower]

the Klingons are now viewed as one of the essential parts of the "Good Guys" in Star Trek.

That's a bit an overreach don't you think. The Klingons are more like a necessary evil than anything else. Their culture and morals are still considered reprehensible and savage by most in starfleet/federation its just now they have a peace treaty.

The Romulans in TNG got a pretty fair treatment though. Over the course of the series we saw disconnects between the Tal Shiar and the Military, the Military and the Romulan government, the Romulan government and the average Romulan civilian. the Romulan Empire is portrayed kinda like North Korea, where Romulan citizens are TOTALLY cutoff from any contact with the outside world and only learn about the Feds from their governments propaganda. I look at it like this; the Klingons will always be a perpetual threat due to their culture, the Romulans will always be a threat due to their politics.

 

[thunderfoot]

Not over reaching at all on the Klingons. The Duras sisters are ronin. And there are several published articles by some of TNG's and DS9's writers and producers which have already stated the Klingons are based on Japanese culture during the Shogunate prior to the Mejii Restoration. Do you really think the producers are going to allow anything like remotely resembling a war between the Feds and the Klinks to appear within a TNG era based film or new series? STO got away with it because it is a game and everyone wanted to play the Klinks in it. Star Trek based PC and console games generally do not follow "canon" Trek because it is inconvenient to their purposes. And Lord how I hate using that word.

Romulans equal North Koreans? How amusing. And how is treating them as having major schisms within their society with constant internal strife amongst the factions 'fair treatment'? This is all we've seen during TNG. They are shown as unreconstructed villains with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, except for the occasional (read that as four) "good Romulan". Who usually winds up dead by the end of the episode.

The Rihannsu are my favorite race. Despite what or how most people view them. There are qualities there which are admirable, even when most people do not see them.