Robot from Lost In Space.
The Kzin - Larry Niven’s “Known Space”
The Pak - ditto
A E Van Vogt and Stanislaw Lem had some interesting ones too but memory fades. The Cataaa.
Skizz
Nemesis the Warlock
Cthulhu
Tweel from Stanley G. Weinbaum’s “A Martian Odyssey.” One of the first really alien aliens, and still one of the best.
The Puppeteers from Larry Niven’s Known Space series.
The Newcomers from Alien Nation.
Quick Rule–we want thinking aliens, not ET animals, no robots.
If it can’t pass a blood test, but it can get a boat loan, it qualifies.
I contend that Daneel Olivaw qualifies.
No, because if Daneel loves & cares for a boat like he should, then a device like him buying one would be prostitution.
And that would be wrong.
Londo Mollari and G’kar.
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Does this word look like “submarine” or “sandwich” to you?
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“Submarine”
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Right. So this film is set on a submarine and not on a sandwich, as you may have previously imagined.
Truth.
I don’t know how I can test for Aliens that can get a boat loan. Could the Alien from Alien the movie get a boat loan? I think she’d eat the loan officer and become disqualified.
Ditto. Followed by Zaphod and pretty much most of the main Farscape cast. But if I am forced to choose, Aeryn.
Chewie!
Q
Khan (The one played by Ricardo Montalban)
Chewbacca
Twi’leks
Yoda
Chewbacca
Edgar Rice Burrough’s green Martians.
The Martians and Venerians from Heinlein’s future history stories.
The Overlords from Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End.
So you’re saying cleaning and doing maintenance on a boat is having sex with the boat?
The Thing, but only after reading the story from its own perspective.
The Cheela, who inhabit a the surface of a neutron star and whose metabolic processes are not based on chemistry, but rather on nuclear interactions, thus occurring thousands of times faster than in humans, meaning they evolved from barbaric to space-faring in the space of a week.
Wang’s carpets, carpet-like aquatic lifeforms whose growth pattern follows that of Wang tiles, which are capable of universal computation—and what they (by pure chance) happen to compute is basically a whole simulated universe, in which there is life, as well.
The aliens from Peter Watts’ Blindsight, which aren’t conscious beings.
Some of the usual suspects, too, but those have all been taken already…
Other than those mentioned, I like the Venusians from Space Cadet, the Mother Thing from Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, and the Martian flatcats from The Rolling Stones, all by Robert Heinlein, of course.
I also like the Spiders from A Deepness in the Sky and the Tines from A Fire Upon the Deep, both by Vernor Vinge.
Hot Green Chick from *Star Trek. *