…’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.
Others have claimed they would lose all limbs, because not needed in space.
What?
much of our technology has required burning things. This is how power was create and elements isolated and such. washing in liquids becomes problematic to. I mean I don’t see why limbs are not needed to engage in controls. I guess over very long times you could lose the legs but only if generations were born and raised in space for a very long time. Its still and advantage to have them working for locomotion just not as much of one. Of course that gets into the species not really evolving once they reach a certain technological level and can compensate for deficiencies. Its about evolving to a level to get to certain tech level.
That is from our land loving species perspectives.
fair enough but its not like its hur dur. air breathers da best breathers. Which ironically some of the most advanced marine species surface to get air but you have the octopi obviously. Its a question of physics. Few things burn under water and water tends to disperse things in an osmotic way. Our ancestors could find fire and utilize it in the environment long before they learned how to generate it. Its not just about power but about smelting and shaping. I mean a sci fi writing can someone envision the species using bioelectricity like from eels but then how do you make the conductive wire. Maybe you use a liquid conductor but now you have to have it contained and you can dip into the biology trough again but the species will need to make rockets to get off their planet as some point. You can of course use immense timescales with someone making bio computers or such figuring out some sort of antigrav lift but you have to stretch more and more to get to that.
There had been water based Beings, never leave water, in I think The Star Trek’s series was named ‘Enterprise’ that had enemy that never left water. Plus your points,
oh yeah. certainly trek and other sci fi have had it but it tends to involve a lot of hand waving or much easier have them be amphibius.
Not a problem if done after the 1st three Star Trek series-now, & that was the point to starting this thread. We are exchanging over nothing, to put it nicely.
I mean yeah. If its not a discussion around why humaniods are seen often or if that would be the case if we ever did actually reach the stars then my apologies. I mean the writers have to decide how much to do hard type science fiction or science fantasy. Obviously the replicators and holograms take the technology so far its in the science fantasy level but often they seemed to otherwise want to keep it tight. I apologize again becasue I thought you were more asking trek only uses humanoid (or mostly only does) and why would that be.
Maybe, I was too quick & tough with last reply, sorry. I just have gotten tired of too many, one is too many, repliers bogging down the discussions within the first 3-series (the original-Animated Series-The Next Generation) when clearly the post starting this thread clearly asks- Why does the Star Trek series (after the first 3; starting with ‘Deep Space 9’) only has humanoid shaped aliens?