List of fictional humanoid species in television
This is a list of fictional humanoid species in television. It is a collection of various notable humanoid species that are featured in television programs, either live-action shows or puppetry, but not species of animated programs.
| Species | Program | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Andorian | Star Trek | A blue-skinned, white-haired species with distinctive antennae, and one of the founding races of the United Federation of Planets. |
| Bajoran | Star Trek | A humanoid extraterrestrial species native to the planet Bajor. They were first introduced in the 1991 episode "Ensign Ro" of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequently also featured in episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. The shows' writers initially depicted the Bajorans as an oppressed people who were often forced to live as refugees, whom they likened to a variety of ethnic groups, with Rick Berman, who helped to originally conceive them, comparing them to "the Kurds, the Palestinians, the Jews in the 1940s, the boat people from Haiti — unfortunately, the homeless and terrorism are problems [of every age]."[1] |
| Betazoid | Star Trek | A black-irised race with empathic and telepathic abilities. |
| Cardassian | Star Trek | A xenophobic and imperialistic reptilian species. |
| Centauri | Babylon 5 | A once-great nation of humanoids, the first extraterrestrials to make contact with humans. |
| Felis sapien | Red Dwarf | A race that evolved in an abandoned mining freighter from a pregnant housecat smuggled aboard by a crewmember. |
| Ferengi | Star Trek | A species with large, sensitive ears and an extremely materialistic culture. |
| Gumby | Gumby | A green clay humanoid character and created and modeled by Art Clokey. |
| Jaffa (Stargate) | Stargate SG-1 | |
| Kaylar | Star Trek | |
| Klingon | Star Trek | A race bearing distinctive forehead ridges and living by a martial honour-based culture. |
| Kromagg | Sliders | |
| Luxan | Farscape | A declining former mighty nation of soldiers. |
| Melmacian | ALF (TV series) | |
| Minbari | Babylon 5 | Very advanced humanoids bearing distinctive bone ridges in the back of their bald heads. |
| Narn | Babylon 5 | A race of former vaguely reptilian humanoid conquerors and colonizers, now being conquered themselves. |
| Ocampa | Star Trek | A short-lived, quickly-aging species with great telepathic potential, living under the care of an advanced being known as the Caretaker after environmental damage to their homeworld caused by the latter. |
| Orphnoch | Kamen Rider Faiz | |
| Romulan | Star Trek | An offshoot of the Vulcans who rejected their ideals of logic and emotional control, and developed a separate paranoid isolationist civilisation. |
| Sontaran | Doctor Who | A warrior race who reproduce exclusively via cloning. |
| Spiridon | Doctor Who | |
| Tellarite | Star Trek | A porcine bearded race known for being stubborn and argumentative, and one of the founding races of the Federation. |
| Time Lord | Doctor Who | An ancient race possessing advanced time travel technology. |
| Trill | Star Trek | A species who, in some cases, live in symbiosis with an implanted sentient worm-like creature. The long-lived symbionts often take many hosts during their lives, allowing their hosts access to previous hosts' memories. |
| Visitor | V | A reptilian humanoid who disguises himself to look human but prefers to eat live prey, such as mice. |
| Vorlon | Babylon 5 | An ancient race of beings that may have inspired legends of angels in Earth's prehistory. |
| Vulcan | Star Trek | A species with distinctive pointed ears and arched eyebrows. Following a destructive period of near-constant war and strife caused by their violent emotions, the Vulcans embraced a philosophy of total logic and emotional control, and eventually became one of the founding races of the Federation. |
| Weeping Angel | Doctor Who | |
| Wraith | Stargate Atlantis | |
References
- Nemecek, Larry (1995). Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion. Pocket Books. Page 178.
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