Captain Seafort wrote:To an extent, for a technologically sophisticated species you can't change the basic human form by much. Binocular vision and opposable thumbs in particular are pretty much prerequisites for developing any form of technology, from clubs upwards.
I don't think opposable digits are even really necessary. Tentacles could serve the same purpose.
On topic: Good point.
Off topic: You gave me a flashback of Krang from the Ninja Turtles.
I think "Super Aliens" could be entirely possible, it all depends on how long they have been developing and the environment in which they have evolved.
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KuvahMagh wrote:I think "Super Aliens" could be entirely possible, it all depends on how long they have been developing and the environment in which they have evolved.
I think it's far more likely that in a Trek esque future where we meet different aliens all the time, it will be more a case that their technology will be so exotic it's incompatible with everything we know and use, or operates on different principles to the point where ideas like "more/less advanced" become very overly simplistic. Trek very much adopts the idea of a linear chain of progression very much mirroring our ideas about human development which both the U.S. and Soviets created... that you move from tribalism to this to that to this to that ultimately winding up at capitalism (if you asked the U.S. in 1950) or Communism (if you asked the Soviets in 1950). I never really embraced that idea of linear development and I don't think we'll see it strictly adhered to in the greater universe with aliens, either.
A species from another more harsh planet would obviously be stronger and be more resiliant.
Their history, one of near destruction then redemption also rings true.
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