I've recently started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. Or tried to at least. I like Picard's character, but it's hard to get into the show when it has such a crippling lack of imagination.
In the show, Aliens from the other side of the galaxy look almost exactly like humans, except with slightly wrinkly foreheads, despite life on our own planet looking so different to us, and also speak Americanized English despite never having met humans before?
I don't know. In my opinion, the measure of quality for a Science Fiction work is in how it imagines or portrays Alien life. The only two Sci-Fi works I've really liked are 2001(both the novel and the film), and Stanislaw Lem's [URL="http://bit.ly/c25l2M "]Solaris[/URL], both of which point out that Alien life will probably be incomprehensible, and ultimately unknowable.
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You are supposed to be watching the one with Shatner
thats the problem
It's entertainment, you're looking into this too much
this is a show about a starship that travels thousands of times the speed of light
Lack of imagination? Are you a dumb bolt?
look at what the Klingons looked like in the original Startrek
It's entertainment. Don't take it so seriously.
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It's because humans are obviously the most superiorest life form and all other sentient species inthe galaxy strive to emulate us.
Q episodes own
[QUOTE=Craptasket;22174272]Q episodes own[/QUOTE]
fucking this.
the one where he becomes human is the bomb.
i was never really about imagination. Star Trek has always been about hippy messages like love and acceptance
and then fuck the borg
They don't speak English because they know it. The Universal Translator lets humans hear it as English, and the alien hears it in their language. It's kind of hard to think of much advanced life without opposable thumbs like us, like primates, so that's probably why a lot of alien species are human-like. There are nonhumanoid species in star trek like the Sheliak:
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but the majority are humanoid.
[QUOTE=Fourfingers;22174941]i was never really about imagination. Star Trek has always been about hippy messages like love and acceptance[/QUOTE]
It was about morals and :techno:
[QUOTE=Jag;22175308]There are nonhumanoid species in star trek like the Sheliak[/QUOTE]
And Nagilum.
Voyager was the best post TOS
Best parts are with Worf
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[QUOTE=NickFury666;22174237]You are supposed to be watching the one with Shatner
thats the problem[/QUOTE]
Yeah, because the aliens don't look like humans at all in TOS..
To OP: It's actually explained in an episode of TNG. 4 billion years ago there was some kind of humanoid race who explored the galaxy and planted planets with their DNA, causing intelligent life to evolve to look like them.
And aliens speaking English is also explained, at least a dozen times. They all carry universal translators (They're built into the little communication device they have on their chests.)
But I agree, Star Trek (And all sci-fi shows in general) give a bad picture of alien life. In reality, even if a humanoid race did create the gene-pools on planets, after 4 billion years life would most likely evolve to look much differently than it does in Star Trek. Pretty much everything we have; emotions, senses, our looks, our respiratory system, the way we gain energy by eating food, even consciousness we have because of certain events on our planets, and the events would have to be exactly the same on all planets in order for life to evolve to a humanoid form on them all.
Also, yes, I am a trekkie :3
I think they explained the suspicious similarity in this one episode. They find a hologram message of a member of a dead species, who apparently planted some of their genes in the early life forms on some planets, so that they'd live on in some way.
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