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Why Only Humanoid Aliens… (piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago by GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social to c/startrek@startrek.website
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…’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.

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[–] mrnarwall@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

There are a few examples of non humanoid species in Star Trek. There is the gas being and the tholians in TOS. And the Sheliak from TNG. Those come to mind, but I'm sure there are others

[–] GreatWhite_Shark_EarthAndBeingsRightsPerson@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Repliers (like yourself) keep missing this part of my post that started this thread- “The first three TV series figured this out”. So yes, I already knew about The Original Series (which is what I think of, when I think of the first three ‘Star Trek’ series with in non-humanoid aliens), ‘The Animated Series’ & ‘The Next Generation’ use of non-Humanoid aliens.
Some repliers also keep missing the rest of that sentence of my post that started this thread- “, but since then everything I have seen has only Humanoid shape aliens.”, when they keep sticking only to the first three series.