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Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There was a TNG episode that said essentially that; there was a precursor species that ‘seeded’ humanoids across the Galaxy.

  https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chase_(episode)

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Of course, they supposedly did that when all life on Earth originated, so it doesn’t make any more sense for us to be able to interbreed with species on other worlds than it does with any other living thing on Earth.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    but why do they look like the founders?

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do you mean ‘why do they look “humanoid?” '

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      • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        their faces have similar make up to Odo’s people.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And the progenitors were expanded upon in discovery too

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  yes. that’s why star trek is bullshit in that regard. if we ever met extraterrestrials and they happen to look anything like humans at all, the biochemical differences will be so severe that there’s absolutely no chance at all that they would be able to produce viable offspring with humans.

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• aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For a sec I confused trill with tribbles and thought I missed one hell of an episode

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  • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The original retro-futuristic furries.

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• MonkeyTown@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Presumably yes.

  But for an bigger interesting question, are all of those others able to interbreed with each other, as well? If yes, they are basically like different races of human or breed of domestic animal. If not, it gets much more interesting in terms of classification.

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