[ SECRET POST #2314 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2314 ⌋

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Comments

Human aliens

[(Anonymous)]

I'm curious - in most sci-fi you've watched, are there usually an in-universe explanation for why most aliens look very similar (i.e., humanoid)? The only sci-fi I've really watched is Star Trek, and I'm curious if the issue is treated differently elsewhere.

Re: Human aliens

[othellia]

In Stargate, the explanation is that the original evil parasitic worm-like aliens took people from Earth and deposited them all over the galaxy like cattle, so that's why almost everyone they run into is essentially human.

There are Ancients too, which are super old intelligent beings who are also human-like, but I forget the explanation - if there was one - for them.

Re: Human aliens

[(Anonymous)]

I always got the impression that the Ancients were the daddies of humanity? and then they ascended and the Go'auld came in later.

Re: Human aliens

[(Anonymous)]

Iirc humans and the Ancients were really closely linked genetically - like...closely enough that inbreeding was actually possible [which is why Sheppard, O'Neil and some others were born with 'ancient gene'.] Also, I think somewhere in SG:A [the pilot maybe?] they ran across a hologram that stated that the ancients 'seeded the universe with life' - AKA the origins of humans. But...my memory of that part could be faulty.

Re: Human aliens

[ryttu3k]

IIRC for Doctor Who, Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society, 'seeded' the universe with time-travelling replicating molecules (...just go with it, heh) so that species would develop to look humanoid, or, more correctly, Gallifreyanoid.

It's actually obliquely referenced a few times in the show ("You look human!" "No, you look Time Lord"), but the bigger explanation has largely been spin-off media only.

Re: Human aliens

[inkmage]

It makes sense to a certain extent - it's been shown that humans' intelligence is highly linked with our ability to manipulate objects, and hands are a great way to do that. That doesn't preclude other body types, but bipeds are an easy bet.

Plus costuming, etc. But there is at least an not totally pulled-out-of-thin-air reason.