(May 23, 2019 at 7:45 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Nerd Hat On (for a sidebar)
The reason that there are so many humanoids in the Star Trek Universe is that a lost civilization terraformed the galaxy and seeded it with humanoid life.
TOS The Paradise Syndrome.
TNG The Chase.
If the lost civilization seeded galaxy with humanoid life, then the introduced humanoid
at least here on earth seems to show inexplicably intimate genetic relationship with the local biosphere.
If the lost civilization seeded galaxy with the original life at the beginning of thenevolutionary tree on each planet, so that the biospheres across the galaxy shares the same initial origin and thus similar basic genetic mechanism and biochemistry, that would do nothing to address why out of the at least 30 or so basic body plans shown to be possible to descend from that original ancestor 4 billion years later just here on our one planet, intelligent seemingly everywhere would occur in just one single variety of one single body plan.
