[tlhIngan Hol] difference between the nouns {Segh} and {mut}
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Thu Jan 27 17:06:56 PST 2022
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- DloraH
On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 16:38 -0500, SuStel wrote:
> 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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