Coolest alien species

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One interesting species that I have seen so far on Blake's 7 is the Auronar, of whom Cally is one of. It's never quite completely clear whether they are truly alien, or genetically engineered humans with psi-powers. But they have a certain tragedy to them. They can only receive thoughts from members of their own race (although they can send thoughts to anyone), and, as a number of episodes have shown, they can be susceptible to outside psychic influence.

The Mutoids from Blake's 7 are also interesting, albeit in a freaky kind of way. Humans modified by cybernetics, they have been brainwashed to be completely loyal to the Federation. Because of their heavy modification, the evil Travis prefers having them as pilots and bodyguards (he himself has a cybernetic arm with a hidden 'laseron destroyer' within). They also have another freaky compulsion, as seen in this clip...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWJVmeWHsIc[/youtube]

BAD guys

Star Trek: Borg
Babylon 5: Shadow
Stargate: Goa'uld

GOOD guys

Star Trek: Vulcans
Babylon 5: Minbari
Stargate: Asgard

Niven's responsible for most of the really good aliens in SF, from the puppeteers to the kzinti (descended from their planet's equivalent of plains cats, they're short-tempered and warlike; their females are non-sapient) to kdatlyno (they see by sonar, and use touch-sculpture in place of writing) to thrintun (they ruled the galaxy a billion years ago, by using the Power, a sort of telepathic hypnosis; they didn't evolve a very high intelligence, because they only needed to be so smart with the Power, and were eventually overthrown by their clever tnuctipun slaves. Their last act was to use a massive psychic amplifier to command every sentient being in the galaxy to die. Their yeast-plants may have been responsible for most of the sapient life that evolved later. They left behind artifacts in stasis boxes, as well as things like rocket trees, Silvereyes sunflowers [reflective petals can focus sunlight into a deadly weapon], and the tnuctipun-designed bandersnatchi [single-celled intelligent beings the size of a large whale, with chromosomes as thick as your arm, they're immune to mutation, and to the Power]). And all those are just in the Known Space stories! (And I haven't even touched on the Pak, or the near-human species on the Ringworld...)

Then there were the Moties, created in conjunction with Jerry Pournelle, as well as the fithp...

The Silence.

I would post a picture, but... wait, what am I doing here?

I am whondering, that noone mentioned aliens as coolest aliens. So there is no cooler alien then the aliens, and no cooler woman in space then Ripley.

Well the Raston warrior robots aren't technically a species, so I choose the Weeping Angels.

The shape changing, carnivorous alien set loose on the Antarctic from The Thing.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Cthulu, most definitely the coolest alien god-thing.

I seem to admire these... don't seem to die out, like cockroaches.