[tlhIngan Hol] difference between the nouns {Segh} and {mut}

[SuStel]

On 1/27/2022 4:20 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> There was a sort of in-universe explanation for this:  Following clues 
> provided by Professor Richard Galen, Capt. Picard, Klingon Capt. 
> Nu'Daq, Cardassian Gul Ocett, and an unnamed Romulan Commander raced 
> to discover a four-billion-year-old genetically encoded message from 
> an ancient humanoid species. (who may have been “The Preservers.” 
>  Since we’re all humanoid species are genetically related this 
> explains how we’re able to interbreed.

No it doesn't. The message was encoded four billion years ago, and in 
all that time, all of Earth life evolved. We can't interbreed with our 
closest relatives separated by only ten million years or so, let alone 
four billion. Even if the story's premise is true, human beings still 
have more genetic code in common with an oak tree than with a 
Cardassian. This explanation raises even more questions and 
impossibilities than it answers.

It really is a matter of not paying any attention to that man behind the 
curtain. Star Trek intelligent species are humanoid because the actors 
portraying them are human. They speak English because English-speaking 
audiences need to be able to understand them and because inventing new 
alien languages is a lot of work. They can interbreed with humans 
because it's convenient to the writers that they do so, and it's easy 
for audiences to accept this because they basically look like humans anyway.


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SuStel
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