Trek relies too heavily on human-like aliens, whether in their appearance or behavior. I still like to think that most of the intelligent aliens in the galaxy are in fact alien lol
Some examples include:
The Sheliak — great aliens. Different sensibility.
I like to think the precise “punctual” Tholians are similar and don’t think or feel or communicate like us among their crystalline selves.
The “If Wishes Were Horses” aliens that didn’t understand imaginations. Imagine how many others they must have come across and never met anyone with imaginations!
Nagilum didn’t understand concept of death. Was everyone else in his part of space immortal, or his alternate dimension?
The Prophets didn’t understand the concept of time. Are there others like them in the wormhole? Is the wormhole a conduit through another timeless plane of existence with similar beings?
Even some humanoids were out there. The Iyaarans (from TNG’s s7 episode “Liaisons”) didn’t understand pleasure, love, or antagonism, and were pod-people born fully formed.
The Husnok (from TNG’s “The Survivors”) that were described as beings of hideous intelligence who knew only aggression and destruction.
Plus all the intelligent beings who the Talosians had in their zoo. (We saw at least two others, a red ape-like alien and a tall bird man-like alien.) Kind of eerie that so many others didn’t mind captivity as long as it was comfortable.
Some examples include:
The Sheliak — great aliens. Different sensibility.
I like to think the precise “punctual” Tholians are similar and don’t think or feel or communicate like us among their crystalline selves.
The “If Wishes Were Horses” aliens that didn’t understand imaginations. Imagine how many others they must have come across and never met anyone with imaginations!
Nagilum didn’t understand concept of death. Was everyone else in his part of space immortal, or his alternate dimension?
The Prophets didn’t understand the concept of time. Are there others like them in the wormhole? Is the wormhole a conduit through another timeless plane of existence with similar beings?
Even some humanoids were out there. The Iyaarans (from TNG’s s7 episode “Liaisons”) didn’t understand pleasure, love, or antagonism, and were pod-people born fully formed.
The Husnok (from TNG’s “The Survivors”) that were described as beings of hideous intelligence who knew only aggression and destruction.
Plus all the intelligent beings who the Talosians had in their zoo. (We saw at least two others, a red ape-like alien and a tall bird man-like alien.) Kind of eerie that so many others didn’t mind captivity as long as it was comfortable.
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