On 5/24/2019 7:15 PM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
Yes. There are humanoid animals. Monkeys and apes come to mind. I assume {Dep} excludes them and all the Star Trek aliens that resemble Humans.
When Star Trek refers to /humanoids,/ it usually means something like "looks a lot like humans, but not a species from Earth." Basically, whenever you create an alien race by sticking prosthetics to a human face, that's a humanoid. Monkeys, mugatos, and so on may be similar to humans in shape, but wouldn't be considered humanoids. This difference is more true of the original /Star Trek/ than later shows, as they started getting the science more accurate. I don't know whether Okrand was thinking of the Star Trek definition of /humanoid,/ or something more general. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name