A staple of the "Star Trek" franchise since its earliest days is its inclusion of imaginative extraterrestrial characters. Whether as members of Starfleet vessels or villains-of-the-week, the ...

It's not just iconic characters like Kirk, Spock, and Janeway that have made "Star Trek" one of the best science fiction franchises of all time. It's also its memorable alien races like the Klingons, ...

The Marvel Universe wouldn't be as large and expansive without the alien worlds that populate it. All sorts of alien races exist, from the humanoid to incomprehensible creatures. Originally introduced ...

We’ve seen countless Klingons, Vulcans, and Borg, but it may be surprising to learn that Star Trek writers have created almost 300 different species across nearly six decades. In Star Trek: The Next ...

Naturally, there aren’t quite as many cameos as you would get if Starfleet Academy was set a few centuries earlier; don’t expect Captain Picard cameos (although there’ll certainly be a lot of Easter ...