Star Trek's 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures

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Star Trek's 10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures

By Lore Sjöberg

11.19.07 | 2:40 PM

Having conquered television, movies, videogames, comic books, paperbacks and lunch boxes, the original Star Trek crew moves into high definition this week. The first season of Star Trek: The Original Series beams onto store shelves Tuesday in an HD DVD/DVD combo pack that looks better than ever.

To celebrate, we're reliving the glory of 10 of the best monsters and creatures to stomp, ooze or float across the screen in the groundbreaking TV series. Thanks to the magic of high def, and a painstaking digital remastering effort, you can now see these monsters in more detail than ever before -- although, to be fair, that doesn't make them look any more convincing.

Vote on our picks (and nominate your own favorite Star Trek aliens) on the Underwire blog.

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Left: Salt Vampire

Episode: "The Man Trap"

Description: Looking like a cross between a lamprey and a troll doll, this creature needs salt to live. Rather than just hitting the Wendy's drive-through, it starts jumping Enterprise crewmen and sucking the salt from their bodies. It can change shape, or maybe just make people think it's changing shape. Either way, Bones totally had the hots for it.

Powers: Shape changing, salt sucking, standing up to Spock's hammer punch.

Weaknesses: Phasers, chastity.

Image: Courtesy CBS Home Entertainment

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[D'Ger]

You know, as cheesy as those costumes were, they looked better than those featured twenty years later in the first two seasons of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (Anticans, Selay, those fish people, etc.).
Still, at least they were trying out alien costumes then. Later, they usually just resorted to a variety of foreheads and noses.

Dan

[necron2.0]

Yeah, that was back in the day when they took the effort to make aliens look like aliens (some of them, anyway), and did it on probably 1/10th the budget of TNG. Naturally, on B&B's watch, with Ronnie boy in tow, they just resorted to cheesy make-up gimmicks, and then came up with some lame ass excuse to explain it all away (that "we're all actually related" episode).

It's sad, actually. TNG in relation to TOS was really just as lame as GINO is in relation to BSG. It's just that when TNG came alone, people were starved for anything on TV that remotely looked like SciFi.

[D'Ger]

Well...I don't know if I would go so far as to say that TNG was the same as GINO. At least TNG offered up more than it's fair share of excellent episodes ("The Inner Light", "The Defector", and "Tapestry" just to name three), along with characters that were actually likable. GINO has none of these.

Dan

[BST]

Well...I don't know if I would go so far as to say that TNG was the same as GINO. At least TNG offered up more than it's fair share of excellent episodes ("The Inner Light", "The Defector", and "Tapestry" just to name three), along with characters that were actually likable. GINO has none of these.

Dan

Dan,

I enjoyed those 3 episodes as well, especially "The Inner Light". I also enjoyed the episode, "Lessons" which featured several duets between Picard and Lt. Cmdr. Daren with Daren playing a "roll-up" keyboard and Picard playing the flute that was sent to him from Kataan (the planet featured on "The Inner Light").

[Tribe13]

The parasite creatures from "Operation: annihilate" are a direct rip off from Heinlein's THE PUPPET MASTERS.