• ooterness@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    There’s an episode of TNG that tries to explain the inter-species breeding thing. Turns out, ancient aliens spread their DNA across the galaxy, and that’s why every alien looks like a human with prosthetics added to their ears, nose, forehead, etc.

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      14 days ago

      Yea, I’m aware, but evolution/genetic drift is a thing. We can’t breed with even our closest terrestrial cousin species with a common ancestor from 5-8 million years ago, which would have come from that same seeded genetic line. Why would we be able to breed freely with a Klingon whose last shared genetics were this seed from 4 billion years ago?