10 Creepiest Star Trek Aliens

These creepy Star Trek aliens are guaranteed to make your skin crawl.

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[masatotanaka]

I would’ve included the extra dimension Aliens from TNG Schisms who abducted Riker, and the ENT aliens who attacked the ship when the lights were out.

[CantankerousDave]

I’m wondering if you still haven’t seen the full version of Conspiracies. They exploding head wasn’t the worst part of that scene, it was when his torso melted open and the mama alien popped up into the chest cavity. And *then* there was a lingering shot on the corpse sitting there, hollowed out like a canoe. That episode was *gnarly*.

[JoshC]

As someone who grew up through the TNG era; the Borg were absolutely creepy as heck at first. They seemed utterly unstoppable and even though they weren't as creepy visually, they inspired a sense of dread that no other alien species, up to that point, had ever been seen in the franchise. When Best of Both Worlds aired and we discovered it was the Borg, there was a genuine thought of (insert Wrath of Khan Chekhov voice) "Oh no!".

And to those in the comments referencing Schisms....100% agree, I'm in my 40s now and that episode still gives me a pit in my stomach; the unseen can often be far scarier...

[privatename]

How about that entity from Voyager who was pretending to be Janeway's father, escorting her spirit after she died, but who was actually devouring the souls he captured? Nothing quite as creepy as something waiting for you after you die, to lie to you and eat your immortality.

[DocD]

Sean’s classic TOS pilot uniform is killer!

[rayg]

How about Lore? He represented everything we fear about technology. The fact that he looked like Data makes him even more creepy.

[thetrembler]

I have to nominate Nagilum. His power, his dispassionate scientific interest, and the callous ways to experiments on sentient beings makes him very creepy I would also give an honorable mention to the Changelings. The aren't always creepy, nor do they need to be. But when infiltrating, they are very creepy. Think of the semblance of O'Brien talking to Sisko on a bench. Has the image of Colm Meaney ever been so creepy, just from a conversation?

[NomenLuni]

I'm surprised that the aliens from Schisms (or the Solonae, as they are known in Star Trek Online) didn't make the list. They were very terrifying. That clicking sound...

I found the Devidians from Time's Arrow seriously creepy as well, both in their natural form and especially when they were disguised as the doctor and nurse.

[wickideazy]

filming a video all the way out on Cestus III? Man, they really blew out the budget for this one!

[purplepothos]

When Scorpion aired I found 8472 rather creepy when you knew the away team were running around those Borg corridors with something dangerous and sadistic, not to mention the nasty tendrils Harry had to put up with.

[ness]

The aliens themselves weren't that creepy or threatening, but the whole episode "Identity Crisis" (TNG, S.4) always spooked me out; something about that mysterious shadow that La Forge was trying to figure out and how it was presented in the episode *really* stuck with me. Just that visceral "fear of the unknown" being scarier than knowing the real thing itself.

[christopherstephenjenksbsg]

I saw "The Man Trap" when it first aired. At that time, the only prime-time science fiction shows on TV that I remember were "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Lost in Space." That salt vampire scared the crap out of me! It was so much better than anything Irwin Allen ever cooked up.

[VideoSamukun]

The Borg... cutting out a piece of the Enterprise was pretty shocking back then. Then their calmness - they just come for you. Their remake for First Contact - talking about body horror. That one episode in Voyager when we see an assimilation chamber. Turning Picard's skin grey was a sick moment back then but seeing the nanoprobes make their way through the blood vessels and then knowing they remix your physique from the inside and then burst out as implant is creepy. I want an origin story (on screen, or at least canon) for the Borg. It could start like Caprica. Anyway, I cannot get enough of the Borg.

The new Gorn are awesome. I hope we see their adult forms in the next season of SNW. I like how scary they younglings are. The adults don't have to top that actually. It would suffice if the species is lethal + instinctive right after birth and lethal + strategic when adult. Intentional evil is more scary than "just gotta survive"... But inentions aren't creepy when you think you can negotiate. Anyway, SNW, bring it on!

The clicking sound aliens who could strike again anytime were creepy too. Coming for you in your sleep, taking you apart and put you together for the next shift. That one Voyager episode tried to repeat that with the aliens who walked around the ship probing the crew.

When I saw the video title I thought of the flying plastic vomit and I'm glad they made it in the list. I found those super creepy as a kid!

[Cellocharly]

Love this list. If you were to do another, I would add Species 8472 and, to me, the creepiest aliens are from the Voyager episode “Macrocosm”.

[KimberlyLetsGo]

As a kid watching Star Trek reruns after school in the 70s, I always thought the Gorn was a Sleestak from Land of the Lost.

[KeenanCasey]

The Creepiest one for me was the Horta from Devil in the Dark. I remember watching this episode a few different times as a kid and was always scared of it. Today at the ripe old age of 46 this particular TOS monster still holds a place of terror in my heart.

[joermnyc]

The Borg slicing and dicing out a chunk of saucer section scared the hell out of me as a kid.

[TheKalaxis]

Nagilum from the Star Trek TNG episode "Where Silence has lease". Its casual disregard for life, ability to kill with ease and general appearance was very unnerving.

[gwilym]

Early Borg were basically a technological lovecraftian horror. When told the crew would rather die than be assimilated, their response is, "death is irrelevant, resistance is futile".

[historybuff]

In fact, I am so freaked out by Strange New Worlds' Gorn, that I find myself wishing for the rubber suit to come back.