23 Facts About Vidiians

Vidiians are a fictional alien race in the Star Trek franchise.

The Vidiians were presented as one of three new alien species that could be expanded as recurring antagonists; the other two were the Kazon and the Sikarians.

The make-up and prosthetics for the Vidiians were extensive, requiring actors to wear head masks, contacts, and dentures.

The Vidiians received a generally positive response from critics who praised them as successfully bringing horror themes to the series.

Vidiians appear as recurring antagonists during Star Trek: Voyager first two seasons.

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Vidiians's instructs them to tell the other Vidiians that any attempt to take another organ from Voyagers crew will be met with deadly force.

The Vidiians make their final appearance during an alternative timeline in "Fury".

The final mention of the Vidiians occurs in the season six episode "Good Shepherd" as one of the various alien species that have threatened Voyager in the past.

Vidiians have appeared in original fiction based on the Star Trek franchise.

The Vidiians have not been featured in Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, but a writer from Cryptic Studios presented in a 2013 article that they may be one potential alien species to be included in future updates.

The spread of the Phage, resulting in thousands of Vidiians dying every day, pushed the alien race to harvest organs and tissue from corpses as well as living beings.

Vidiians developed advanced medical technology to counteract the spread and progression of the disease, such as their use of a "combined weapon, medical scanner, and surgical instrument" and knowledge of immunogenicity.

Braga stated that the Vidiians were partially inspired by Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, emphasizing that he wanted to portray them as sympathetic.

Vidiians's explained: "[E]ven though they knew what they were doing was wrong in terms of the actual action, they were very confident that because they were culturally superior, they were totally justified in killing people and taking their organs".

Taylor worked closely with Westmore to ensure that the Vidiians bore no resemblance to previous alien species featured in the Star Trek franchise.

Vidiians described the prosthetic as giving him a "raw, wounded face, which made [him] feel very vulnerable as a person", and viewed it as an acting challenge.

Vidiians explained his interpretation of the Doctor's romance with Pel:.

Vidiians falls in love with the real her, the horrifyingly deformed her, not this beautiful, radiant holographic being that is trapped inside her.

Vidiians's viewed Janeway's initial difficulty with approaching the Vidiians about the subject of ethics as showcasing a level of "poignancy".

Vidiians described them as "the most interesting ones that we've run into as far as a new concept and look, and something totally different", highlighting their use of horror conventions.

Vidiians's felt that they "just seemed very wimpy to me, even though they were saying the same dialogue I had written".

Literary critic John Kenneth Muir wrote that the Vidiians were an example of the prevalence of organ harvesting story arcs in science fiction, comparing them to characters in the British television shows UFO, Space: 1999, and Blake's 7.

Vidiians questioned the connection between storylines such as the Vidiians to the spread of urban legends involving organ trafficking.