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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/27/2022 4:20 PM, Steven Boozer
wrote:<br>
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<div class="WordSection1"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.</span></div>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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