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fair enough but its not like its hur dur. air breathers da best breathers. Which ironically some of the most advanced marine species surface to get air but you have the octopi obviously. Its a question of physics. Few things burn under water and water tends to disperse things in an osmotic way. Our ancestors could find fire and utilize it in the environment long before they learned how to generate it. Its not just about power but about smelting and shaping. I mean a sci fi writing can someone envision the species using bioelectricity like from eels but then how do you make the conductive wire. Maybe you use a liquid conductor but now you have to have it contained and you can dip into the biology trough again but the species will need to make rockets to get off their planet as some point. You can of course use immense timescales with someone making bio computers or such figuring out some sort of antigrav lift but you have to stretch more and more to get to that.
There had been water based Beings, never leave water, in I think The Star Trek’s series was named ‘Enterprise’ that had enemy that never left water. Plus your points,
oh yeah. certainly trek and other sci fi have had it but it tends to involve a lot of hand waving or much easier have them be amphibius.
Not a problem if done after the 1st three Star Trek series-now, & that was the point to starting this thread. We are exchanging over nothing, to put it nicely.
I mean yeah. If its not a discussion around why humaniods are seen often or if that would be the case if we ever did actually reach the stars then my apologies. I mean the writers have to decide how much to do hard type science fiction or science fantasy. Obviously the replicators and holograms take the technology so far its in the science fantasy level but often they seemed to otherwise want to keep it tight. I apologize again becasue I thought you were more asking trek only uses humanoid (or mostly only does) and why would that be.
Maybe, I was too quick & tough with last reply, sorry. I just have gotten tired of too many, one is too many, repliers bogging down the discussions within the first 3-series (the original-Animated Series-The Next Generation) when clearly the post starting this thread clearly asks- Why does the Star Trek series (after the first 3; starting with ‘Deep Space 9’) only has humanoid shaped aliens?