Star Trek: 10 Shapeshifting Aliens That We Know About

There have been far more than 10 shapeshiftables in Star Trek in the now near 60 years. So as to avoid yet another interstellar brouhaha with one or another of them, we thought it best to add an extra entry to detail as many of these uniquely capable aliens as possible. Oh, and sorry the Douwd/Kevin Uxbridge, but you just missed out once again!

Mentioned in the introduction, everyone thought the Salt Vampire, or M-113 creature, had sucked its last (bit of sodium chloride), until we (and especially Commander Ransom) found out the truth in Veritas of Star Trek: Lower Decks. As a species, they owed their shapeshifting abilities to a form of telepathic projection, it would seem, rather than an actual re-arrangement of self. In that way, the Salt Vampire, or Salt Succubus in Beckett Mariner's words, was comparable to the Talosians and to the Rigellian hypnoid, i.e. that pink (what wasn't in The Animated Series!) thing from Mudd's Passion. 

Speaking of passion, there was Ronin the Shapeshifting Sex Ghost, more properly an 'anaphasic lifeform' that could assume a human(oid) appearance. Similar, though less lascivious, if occasionally murderous, beings included Redjac (aka Jack the Ripper) and the Organians. The Q, whether they'd like it or not, no doubt also count in the same category of non-corporeals capable of taking on corporeal (or other) form.

We've already mentioned the 'dogs,' so let's not forget Gary Seven's 'cat'! There's also the genetically modified Suliban with camouflage, the Devidians with a taste for 19th century humans, the Satarrans, the Traveller, the Kelvans, and plenty more. Even humans could 'learn' how to shapeshift by a process of 'cellular metamorphosis', as Garth of Izar amply demonstrated in Whom Gods Destroy. And now, before this writer has to revert back to his liquid state, there is one final shapeshifter we must consider…