Re: Star Trek

staving Michael Adams:
>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?
>
I haven't seen it, but I believe that there's an episode of Deep Space 9
where they discover that some ancient race spread humanoid DNA throughout
the galaxy, leading to the evolution of humanoid races on many different
planets.

Scientifically less plausible than the TARDIS, I'd say.

As for languages, the only well attested Treklang is Klingon, which Marc
Okrand seems to have devised by combining unusual features from a number of
different natlangs. While it's designed to sound alien, there's nothing
about it that couldn't be human.

Pete

PS Watch REPLY-TO headers - I had to edit it.

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