…’Star Trek’ everything (TV-Movies) only has aliens that are in humanoid shape, makes no sense to me. Scientifically we cannot think, if we start, eventually, space exploration that all the life we come into contact with will come in humanoid shape. Why the BLANK did not ‘Star Trek’ everything creators not think of this? The first three TV series figured this out, but since then everything I have seen has only Humanoid shape aliens.
*- I am not saying we will ever be able to explore space, it has already scientifically proven that space particles can be blocked from going right through astronauts bodies & long term will cause serious damage.
The scientific American published article said, the science proved that the dangerous effect will be on their brains & causing effects like Alzheimer.
They did address this to an extent, way back in TNG’s “The Chase” - the TL;DR is that most sapient life in the galaxy was seeded by an ancient race, and therefore have some common ancestry. This was expanded upon somewhat in Discovery’s fifth season.
What?
I never watched ‘Discovery’,
The majority of the lore comes from the TNG episode - the Discovery season mostly deals with a hunt for the Progenitors’ lost technology, with the main revelation being that the Progenitors had found it, not invented it, so the original life-giving entities remain unknown.
So you are saying, I should rewatch ‘TNG’s The Chase episode, over Discovery’s 4th season?
I would, yes - it’s got the majority of the info.
It you enjoy realistically inhuman aliens, I do recommend you check out season 4 of Discovery. The season long arc involves probably the most difficult and problematic first contract scenarios Star Trek has had.
I tried to watch ‘Discovery’, but did not like it after a few 1-season episodes.
Just make sure we are on same wave length, I was only saying there needs to be more non-humanoid shaped aliens. NOT just tough first or repeated encounters with humanoid shaped aliens. I will give season 4 a try.
I understand, but I feel like they go together as part of a realistic alien encounter. These aliens both look and act different. They don’t register “us” as life forms, there’s a full episode devoted to figuring out how they communicate, fun stuff like that.
Okay, I gotcha on what you mean, but on the parts beyond just appearance is that not what all ‘Star Trek’ have done at one-episode or another?
It’s not totally unique for sure, there are similar examples like TNG’s Home Soil. But all too often we have situations like Voyager being on the other side of the galaxy and the universal translator just working.
That is a great point, I never thought of. What huge logical hole. I just couple nights watched the original, where they explained how a device a NONHUMANOID ALIEN created it’s own translator.