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. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name