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• Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does this mean humans are the same species as vulcans, klingons, romulans, betazoids, trill, ocampa, and ktarians?

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  • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And the progenitors were expanded upon in discovery too

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      but why do they look like the founders?

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The original retro-futuristic furries.

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  • MonkeyTown@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same with oaks. Down with the splitters! Lumpers are the chosen people who will inherit the earth botany.

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• whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  By this categorization llamas and camels are the same species as they can sometimes produce fertile offspring

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  • JillyB@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do they do that naturally?

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    • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, but the criteria is 1. Interbreeding is possible and 2. Can produce fertile offspring

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• ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  10/10 more Keiko please

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    O’Brien seriously pulled that.

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    • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well he is the most attractive man in the galaxy.

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, she’s pretty, but she’s also a bit of a drag. Now that I think of him, yeah, he seriously pulled that.

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