How many times, across all the Star Trek series, have the captain and crew bumped into aliens that didn't have a physical form? Bodiless spectres? Godlike entities? Let me see if I can count 'em. No promises that I won't miss a few. As it is, it makes quite a playlist, if that's the kind of Trek episode that turns you on. Note, TOS = The Original Series; TAS = The Animated Series; TNG = The Next Generation; DS9 = Deep Space Nine; VOY = Voyager; ENT = Enterprise; LD = Lower Decks; SNW = Strange New Worlds. Numbering is in order of first broadcast, except that TOS S1 (season 1) E1 (episode 1) and E2 are the two pilots for that series, and the numbering follows accordingly.
- TOS S1 E4: "Charlie X" - Youth has trouble readjusting to human society after being brought up by the godlike Thasians. Eventually they take him back, for his own good and everybody else's.
- TOS S1 E17: "The Squire of Gothos" - Trelane turns out to be an adolescent incorporeal alien.
- TOS S1 E18: "Arena" - Vastly superior aliens force Kirk to dance with a reptoid alien.
- TOS S1 E26: "Errand of Mercy" - The Organians aren't as helpless and humanoid as they seem.
- TOS S2 E9: "Metamorphosis" - The incorporeal alien who loves Zephram Cochrane finds a way for him to love her back.
- TOS S2 E13: "Obsession" - It's a cloud of sweet-smelling gas, but it's also a blood-sucking predator.
- TOS S2 E14: "Wolf in the Fold" - Redjac travels from world to world, possessing people and using them to kill.
- TOS S2 E20: "Return to Tomorrow" - Once freed from the gizmos that have kept their minds on ice, they can't survive without possessing humanoid bodies.
- TOS S3 E4: "And the Children Shall Lead" - The psycho children's "friendly angel" isn't so friendly, really.
- TOS S3 E5: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" - Medusans, don'tcha know.
- TOS S3 E6: "Spectre of the Gun" - Vastly superior aliens force the crew to reenact the gunfight at the OK Corral.
- TOS S3 E7: "Day of the Dove" - S**t-stirring entity feeds off conflict and violence.
- TOS S3 E18: "The Lights of Zetar" - Evil ghosts possess Scotty's girlfriend.
- TOS Film 5: "The Final Frontier" - What does God need with a starship?
- TAS S1 E3: "One of Our Planets Is Missing" - A cloud creature feeds off the energy of planets.
- TAS S2 E3: "The Practical Joker" - An energy being plays pranks on the crew.
- TNG S1 E1: "Encounter at Farpoint" - Q.
- TNG S1 E4: "The Last Outpost" - The energy alien took a humanoid form, for display only.
- TNG S1 E5: "Where No One Has Gone Before" - The Traveler can also travel as pure energy. I think. Maybe he's just good at phasing from one reality to another.
- TNG S1 E6: "Lonely Among Us" - Energy alien runs amok on the ship, possessing people.
- TNG S1 E7: "Justice" - Higher-dimensional lifeform reveals itself as "God" to a pleasure planet.
- TNG S1 E9: "Hide and Q" - Q again.
- TNG S2 E1: "The Child" - Energy being impregnates Deanna.
- TNG S2 E2: "Where Silence Has Lease" - Incorporeal being does cruel experiments on the Enterprise.
- TNG S2 E16: "Q Who?" - Q again. Also, the Calamarain.
- TNG S3 E3: "The Survivors" - Old guy turns out to be an immortal energy being.
- TNG S3 E5: "The Bonding" - Energy alien passes itself off as a dead crew member.
- TNG S3 E13: "Deja Q" - Q again.
- TNG S3 E26: "Transfigurations" - Guy ascends to a noncorporeal plane of existence.
- TNG S4 E10: "The Loss" - 2D creatures cause Deanna to lose her empathy.
- TNG S4 E15: "Power Play" - Evil ghosts possess members of the crew.
- TNG S4 E23: "Imaginary Friend" - Energy being messes around with a crewman's child.
- TNG S6 E15: "Tapestry" - Q again.
- TNG S7 E6: "Phatasms" - Interphasic creatures feed on the crew.
- TNG S7 E14: "Sub Rosa" - A ghost makes sweet, sweet love to Beverly.
- TNG S7 E20: "Journey's End" - Wesley joins the Traveler.
- TNG S7 E25: "All Good Things..." - Q again.
- DS9 S1 E1: "Emissary" - The wormhole aliens, a.k.a. Bajor's prophets
- DS9 S1 E6: "Q-Less" - Q again.
- DS9 S1 E9: "The Passenger" - A criminal entity hops from body to body.
- DS9 S1 E13: "The Storyteller" - Really more of a figment of a village's collective imagination
- DS9 S1 E15: "If Wishes Were Horses" - Entities grant wishes to study humanoids' imagination
- DS9 S2 E9: "Second Sight" - A lovely woman turns out to be another woman's psychic projection
- DS9 S2 E24: "The Collaborator" - The Bajoran prophets again.
- DS9 S3 E16: "Prophet Motive" - The Bajoran prophets again.
- DS9 S4 E16: "Accession" - The Bajoran prophets again.
- DS9 S5 E5: "The Assignment" - The pagh-wraiths
- DS9 S5 E10: "Rapture" - The Bajoran prophets again.
- DS9 S6 E7: "Sacrifice of Angels" - The Bajoran prophets again.
- DS9 S6 E21: "The Reckoning" - The Bajoran prophets & pagh-wraiths again.
- DS9 S6 E26: "Tears of the Prophets" - The Bajoran prophets & pagh-wraiths again.
- DS9 S7 E1: "Image in the Sand" - The Bajoran prophets & pagh-wraiths again.
- DS9 S7 E2: "Shadows and Symbols" - The Bajoran prophets & pagh-wraiths again.
- DS9 S7 E17: "Penumbra" - The Bajoran prophets again.
- DS9 S7 E18: "'Til Death Do Us Part" - The Bajoran prophets again.
- DS9 S7 E19: "Strange Bedfellows" - The pagh-wraiths again.
- DS9 S7 E25: "What You Leave Behind" - The Bajoran prophets & pagh-wraiths again.
- VOY S1 E1: "Caretaker" - The banjo man is a being made of sporocystian energy.
- VOY S1 E6: "The Cloud" - There's not only coffee in that nebula; it's a life form.
- VOY S1 E11: "Heroes and Demons" - Energy aliens accidentally beamed aboard.
- VOY S1 E12: "Cathexis" - Entity possesses members of the crew.
- VOY S2 E10: "Cold Fire" - Another sporocystian lifeform.
- VOY S2 E18: "Death Wish" - Another Q episode.
- VOY S3 E11: "The Q and the Grey" - Another Q episode.
- VOY S3 E15: "Coda" - incorporeal alien tries to feed off Janeway's soul.
- VOY S4 E2: "The Gift" - Kes goes incorporeal
- VOY S5 E12: "Bride of Chaotica!" - Photonic aliens try first contact via holodeck
- VOY S5 E18: "The Fight" - Chakotay uses vision quest to communicate with aliens
- VOY S6 E23: "Fury" - Kes comes back from incorporeality, pissed
- VOY S6 E25: "The Haunting of Deck Twelve" - entity indvertently brought on board
- VOY S7 E18: "Q2" - Q and Q Jr.
- ENT S2 E18: "The Crossing" - Incorporeal aliens take over crew members' bodies.
- ENT S3 E8: "Twilight" - subspace parasites infect Archer's brain.
- ENT S4 E11: "Observer Effect" - Those rascally Organians, again
- Discovery S2 passim: The ship uploads an alien data archive so vast that it's practically sentient.
- Discovery S4 passim: The Federation is threatened by aliens so incomprehensibly superior that they don't perceive humanoids as a life form.
- LD S1 E4: "Moist Vessel" - a crewman ascends to the incorporeal plane
- Prodigy passim: A Medusan serves as a main character
- Picard S2 E10: "Farewell" - Traveler-Wesley returns.
- SNW S1 E3: "Ghosts of Illyria" - What are those energy things, anyway?
- SNW S1 E8: "The Elysian Kingdom" - The incorporeal entity's name is Debra.
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