# Lamest single-episode Star Trek aliens **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368 "2005-10-15T16:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368/41 "2005-10-18T00:33:41Z")
> [@Sam Stone](#): > > The stupid space-hippies looking for Eden. With their cult-father alien, the guy who looked completely human except for some really ugly cauliflower ears. [I’m in love, Jim!](http://www.teleport-city.com/movies/reviews/g-h/godzilla_vs_megalon.html) ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368/42 "2005-10-18T00:50:42Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > And some people LOVE that episode. I just. Don’t. Get. It. I’m one of those people. It helps a lot if you mentally replace the whole metaphor-speaking thing with a simple inability to use the translator. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368/43 "2005-10-18T00:51:33Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > I didn’t think that was so ridiculous. I assumed it meant down near the lower “bulge” of the disk. Speaking of east, west, north, and south on the Earth itself is no less arbitrary. It’s not the directionality. That’s easy as you yourself point out. It’s that they do a “racial war” episode and they just have to set it in the _“southern”_ part of the galaxy. Jesus, the message was already being delivered through our windows subtly wrapped around a 2-ton wrecking ball… That nothwhitstanding, the Cheronians still were a monstrously lame idea, agreed. As that the “California Planet of the Seminude Aerobics Instructors” with its random death penalty was quite a less than satisfyingly drawn society. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368/44 "2005-10-18T01:24:59Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > The Red-State/Blue State aliens from Star Trek: Deep Space Voyager. > > (Arrggh! Stupid, STUPID time machine readouts! You haven’t gotten to that series yet :smack: … I’ll repost in 11.6 years, sorry) Although the collapse of the Federation was pretty cool, I hated how they turned Earth into an Orion slave colony. What **is** it with the Orions and their trading in live humanoids, anyway? Given the interstellar distances involved, wouldn’t it be cheaper just to build robots? ---
**Author:** ![AmbushBug](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ambushbug/32/4600_2.png) [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368/45 "2005-10-18T01:54:46Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > And some people LOVE that episode. I just. Don’t. Get. It. Darmok and your mom at Tenagra. 😃 [sub]i kid. i actually stole this from [amusing.org](http://amusing.org/?460)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368/46 "2005-10-18T02:15:43Z")
I’m gonna have to vote for the Eymorgs (and the Morgs, too!) from “Spock’s Brain.” “Brain and brain! What is _brain_?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-single-episode-star-trek-aliens/326368.md?page=2)