Re: Star Trek

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Yep.  The humanoidity (if there is such a word) of the alien races makes
> little sense, their ability to interbreed even less.
The humanoid appearance I can wave away under suspension of disbelief
(low budgets in TOS, plus truly alien creatures would be harder for
viewers to sympathize with, heck, even convergent evolution, implausible
though it might be), but the interbreeding is a problem.

> Which *does* make sense because Romulans are Vulcan emigrants.  They are
> the same species.
Though, the Romulans seem to have gone a LONG way away from their
cousins ... one wonders why they didn't colonize a planet closer to Vulcan.

>>In my fictional reality (Azir), the Zireen and Sangari are closely
>>enough related to interbreed, but they've been separated for so long
>>that none of their languages or words in their languages (beyond recent
>>borrowings) are recognizable as being related.
>
>
> How long ago did they separate from each other?
My planet has two fully sentient species, the Southerners and
Northerners, and one semi-sentient (primitive tool-using capability,
possibly ability to use fire, crude language - essentially early Homo
analogue), more closely related to teh Southerners than the Northerners,
incidentally, though early biologists clumped the sentients in one genus
and the semi-sentient in a second.  For the most part, in historical
times, the two sentients were separated by an ocean.  However, a few
Southerners were found on the Northern Continent.  They tended to speak
languages related to those of their Northerner neighbors, or, in some
cases, the same language.