What Could the Breen REALLY Look Like? [Old Version]

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The Breen are one of the most mysterious aliens in Star Trek. Allied with the Dominion during the Dominion War in DS9, the Breen emerge as one of the Federation's most formidable enemies. But what do they really look like under their refrigeration suits?

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So, what do YOU think the Breen really look like under their suits? Let me know down below!

[mturynP]

I took my first look at them and cried 'Snoopy-Cylons!'.

[majkus]

A friend of mine who was a prop and costume-piece maker for DS9 back in the day told me that the plan, never realized, was for them to be (basically) lupine, as suggested by their snout-shaped mask. But it was decided that it was more interesting to leave their form as a mystery. And so it is. And of course, my friend may have been supplying disinformation.

[djcjrx]

"Water vapor in air that movie's stupid", "aliens don't need your permission!" You crack me up, great ringtone BTW.

[Vidiocity]

As cool as it'd be to see what they look like, the Breen should never be revealed, just always keep the mystery

[baronOdaighre]

I had this silly idea for what the Breen could be a while ago, that under their suits and in their natural environment, they're literal walking snowmen. More concretely, they're jellyfish-like creatures with big heads that contain their brain and other organs, and under that head a big mass of long tendrils that they can use to shape loosely-packed snow into improvised limbs, they then wrap their tendrils around the snow "body" and move it around like a big puppet. As well as for movement, these tendrils have the function of absorbing oxygen, meltwater and nutrients from the snow up into the head of the Breen body. On Breen itself, the "snow puppets" the Breen walk around as could be in any shape that is convenient for the environment, but when going out into space, they restrict themselves via their fridge-suits to a humanoid form, for ease of interacting with the technology of other (overwhelmingly humanoid) aliens. I also this "walking snowman" idea could explain why their species and homeworld are both called "Breen", the word could translate to "snow", so a Breen is a Snow from Planet Snow.

There's another interesting canon fact about the Breen that the Doctor gives in an episode of Voyager, that their females reproduce at what, by human standards, is a very young age. One interpretation of this could be that Breen exhibit sequential hermaphroditism, that they're all born female and then become male at some later stage in life. This could be quite an interesting thing to portray if the Breen ever make another Star Trek appearance.

Moving away from their biology, I've always thought they might have more technological secrets up their sleeves as well. In a lot of their appearances, a character will remark about how odd it is that the Breen are operating so far away from Breen space, and then there's their capacity to be able to launch a sneak attack on Earth during the Dominion War... I think the Breen have access to some sort of transwarp capability, as well as who knows what other technology they might be keeping secret from the wider galaxy by posing as just simple pirates and raiders at the fringes of civilised space.

[Nostripe]

I also saw a crackpot theory that Breen soldiers might be reanimated dead bodies that use refrigeration suits to keep the decay from damaging the body to much

[ns]

Thank you I'm glad you showed how Leia wore a Breen helmet in Jaba's palace to free Han. She's part of the Confederacy!!!

[matthewdavies]

"Never turn your back on a Breen."

[iggystoneman]

In the Next Generation episode "The Chase" (season 6 episode 20) we learn that a large portion of the humanoids in Star Trek all share a common origin from a long extinct humanoid species that seeded themselves in worlds across the galaxy. So really humans, cardassians, klingons, etc. are all linked. Something makes me think that the Breen do not share this origin, which is why they are so different. I always found it odd how many humanoid creatures there were in trek, but the explanation of their origin explains it, and it also may explain why they all seem to exist in relatively similar atmospheres and conditions. The Breen didn't originate the same way (presumably), so they evolved in such a different atmosphere, which explains all the strange distinctions we see. It could also be possible that they aren't actually humanoid at all, and the suits they wear are simply shaped like a humanoid to make interaction with the other species easier. You know, having fingers to press buttons and hold weapons and stuff.

[JaredLS]

What is really confusing is when they capture Worf and Ezri the areas of the ship we see them have an oxygen atmosphere and so do the adjacent corridors, pretty nice of the Breen to change there life support systems to accommodate a couple prisoners.

[unmvedmver]

The water vapor in the air bit about the movie Signs was so on point, huge peeve of mine lol

[newtonjr]

Awesome dude definitely deserve more subs

[dylans]

Part of me wants to know what’s underneath their suit but the other part loves the mystery. Awesome job on another great video Tyler!

[silvadelshaladin]

Your idea of a jellyfish type creature could work well with nobody ever seeing one. You'd have to figure they have been killed before. If you opened the suit and whatever was inside already dissolved into goop you'd still have no idea what they were.

[blackhorseman]

I think that the Breen is actually similar to an unmanned drone with the actual operator being elsewhere. Like flying a drone with the Breen home world being in control "real-time" far away via subspace, neutrinos or tachyons possibly?!

[paddy]

Major Kyra and Gul Dukat know what they look like. They knocked a couple out and stole their uniforms.

[CristySFM]

Love the Breen and tholians 2 mysteries of star trek

[thomashill]

Thanks for sharing your search of the information about this interesting race of Star Trek.

[JoducusKwak]

i hope the breen never get demasked, i love the mistery, also i think they are multiple species and probably have humans among them, probably OG Augments