Honestly I’ve always hated this. An early example of the awful trend where there has to be a “lore reason” for every little detail.
Star Trek aliens are mostly humanoids because its a human TV show telling stories that have to be relatable to humans and also has a limited budget. There is no need for a lore explanation.
At least in this case it’s a one off that’s never really referenced again.
I like it, because it tells us that even though they are all aliens, everyone is related as one giant family.
So why have a war between species, when that means we are all fighting our own.
It is a good analogy about humanity and how we all evolved from the same ancestors, so we should stop the bickering and start to work together to make our ancestors proud.
I agree with you in premise, there is a general trend to over lore in modern sci-fi. Things can’t just be, they need some specific explanation.
This though, I didn’t hate. It’s always bothered me that aliens in sci-fi are just humans with shit on their face, their cultures are just aspects of our culture turned to the extreme, and every species’ technology is around the same level.
Having a progenitor species that seeded the galaxy and that’s why every intelligent species is basically the same is fine, basic but you know at least it makes sense and doesn’t need to come up again.
Why are they the same, because a wizard did it essentially.
Honestly I’ve always hated this. An early example of the awful trend where there has to be a “lore reason” for every little detail.
Star Trek aliens are mostly humanoids because its a human TV show telling stories that have to be relatable to humans and also has a limited budget. There is no need for a lore explanation.
At least in this case it’s a one off that’s never really referenced again.
I like it, because it tells us that even though they are all aliens, everyone is related as one giant family.
So why have a war between species, when that means we are all fighting our own.
It is a good analogy about humanity and how we all evolved from the same ancestors, so we should stop the bickering and start to work together to make our ancestors proud.
I agree with you in premise, there is a general trend to over lore in modern sci-fi. Things can’t just be, they need some specific explanation.
This though, I didn’t hate. It’s always bothered me that aliens in sci-fi are just humans with shit on their face, their cultures are just aspects of our culture turned to the extreme, and every species’ technology is around the same level.
Having a progenitor species that seeded the galaxy and that’s why every intelligent species is basically the same is fine, basic but you know at least it makes sense and doesn’t need to come up again.
Why are they the same, because a wizard did it essentially.
If they were true to how the universe works then every species they encountered would be crabs.