One of its most famous aliens is Spock, who (allegedly) has done away with emotion, giving us a perspective of pure logic (for a TV writer’s grasp of the word “logic”) that is often wildly different from his human crewmates, and yet just as valid. The Doctor’s TARDIS may have a mysterious fascination for Earth (in particular the South of England and some bits of Wales), but the creatures that wash up there from the rest of the galaxy are fascinating to behold.īut we shouldn’t judge an alien by its carapace, so… These are creatures that look properly alien. Doctor Who is remembered for creatures like the Zygons, evil-looking shapeshifters made entirely of tentacles, the massive rhinoceros faces of the Judoon, the fish vampires of “The Vampires of Venice”, the giant green clawed babies of the Raxicoricophallapatorians, Bo’s giant face, carnivorous shadows, and last but not least, the hideous mutated cycloptipus you’ll find behind the steering wheel of a Dalek. Of course, Doctor Who has had its fair share of species that just so happened to evolve to look exactly like humans (the Doctor themselves is one), and there are plenty of species behind that which deviate from humanity only insofar as they genetically have more eyeliner.īut those are not the aliens for which Doctor Who is remembered. At best.Īt worst – and there’s no getting around this – you have blackface. But there is no getting around the fact that the vast majority of Star Trek’s alien life, across all four quadrants of the galaxy, are obviously human-looking guys with prosthetics glued to their heads. Star Trek has a few standouts – the Horta, the Tholians, the Gorn, that Tardigrade on Discovery. This is, frankly, an easy win for the Doctor.
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