Re: Star Trek

Michael Adams wrote:

>One thing I noticed with Star Trek, is that the humans, vulcans,
>romulans, Rigelians and Klingons seem to have a common ancestor
>or what?
>
>Humans can breed with Vulcans and produce fertile offspring?
>
>Humans can breed with Klingons and do the same or ...
>
>What else?
>
>Why this, is cause of they can interbreed and have a possible
>common origin, would their languages have some possible common
>ancestor, or if anything sounds and such in common and some
>words in common or structures?
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There was an episode late in the ST:Next Generation series called "The
Chase" which explains the common humanoid origin of these species (the
proteins which formed DNA in the primordial oceans of each species'
homeworld had been seeded by a "progenitor" humanoid race 4 billion years
earlier so that the lifeforms that would eventually evolve would be
humanoid.  As for interspecies breeding, there was another episode called
"The Emissary" where it is revealed that Klingons and humans can produce
hybrid offspring but only "with a little help" from genetic manipulation.
None of this, of course, says anything about language commonalities.