(May 23, 2019 at 5:27 am)LastPoet Wrote:(May 23, 2019 at 2:32 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Never mind the fact that the whole universe speaks English.......
If two races that evolved on different planets met - wouldn't simple contact likely be fatal for both sides due to bacterial and viral contamination?
After all - we teem with microbes that we are immune to - but an alien wouldn't have that immunity.
Meet, shake hands, dead within hours....
Kinda makes "live long and prosper" moot.
How about aliens breathing the same O2, and all being upright walking tetrapods? This kind of stuff just perpetuates ignorance on how life evolved, and the idea that humans are the "peak" of evolution. There is no peak in evolution.
To be fair, that was largely the financial and time constraints of episodic television. And Trek did make a few stabs at non-humanoid life forms.
Boru
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