Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <106so9s$2nee8$2@dont-email.me>, did
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thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

Then again, we can't expect real science fiction from Star Trek. If the
character is one of their already-makes-no-sense hybrids, I guess
there's at least some explanation.

Yeah, it makes zero sense for this character to exist.

It seems like every iteration of 'Trek now has a new half-breed of some sort.

Do they ever make any effort to explain this? I've never seen one
onscreen. One of the novels bothered to mention that Sarek and Amanda
had used a laboratory to create Spock, but the shows seem to assume that
any two creatures can reproduce. Really, it seems like it would be
easier for a human to mate with an oak tree than with any
extraterrestrial species.

People do seem to like hybrids, though. There are other SF shows with
hybrid characters, and fantasy has a lot of half-elves and half-orcs
running around. I think we go for that "I don't really fit in anywhere" thing, which is a normal part of adolescence and so lives inside us all.

There’s an episode of TNG where they trace down some ancient race that fiddled with younger races, and it turns out that humans and Klingons and Romulans and some fourth race, maybe Kardashians, all sprang from a common ancestor.

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Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <2074101647.776132458.870628.anim8rfsk- cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this message:

Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

Verily, in article <106so9s$2nee8$2@dont-email.me>, did
weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

Do they ever make any effort to explain this? I've never seen one
onscreen. One of the novels bothered to mention that Sarek and Amanda
had used a laboratory to create Spock, but the shows seem to assume that >>> any two creatures can reproduce. Really, it seems like it would be
easier for a human to mate with an oak tree than with any
extraterrestrial species.

There?s an episode of TNG where they trace down some ancient race that
fiddled with younger races, and it turns out that humans and Klingons and
Romulans and some fourth race, maybe Kardashians, all sprang from a common >> ancestor.

They'd better throw betazoids in there as well, and probably some others
I'm forgetting.

Pretty much everybody


Were there any Andorian-human hybrids onscreen, or was

that only in the novels?

Not that I recall, but of course it starts getting complicated with crap
like Enterprise, which turned out just to be a holo novel and then all of
nu trek which obviously isn’t canon to real Trek no matter what they say.
In fact, TNG stopped being canon with real trek when they got the year
wrong towards the end of season one.



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thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

weberm@polaris.net delivered unto us this message:

thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:

Then again, we can't expect real science fiction from Star Trek.
If the character is one of their already-makes-no-sense hybrids,
I guess there's at least some explanation.

Yeah, it makes zero sense for this character to exist.

It seems like every iteration of 'Trek now has a new half-breed of some sort.

Do they ever make any effort to explain this? I've never seen one
onscreen. One of the novels bothered to mention that Sarek and Amanda
had used a laboratory to create Spock, but the shows seem to assume that
any two creatures can reproduce. Really, it seems like it would be
easier for a human to mate with an oak tree than with any
extraterrestrial species.

I honestly do not remember but thought Spock was eventually conceived via nature intercourse and Bayanna from Voyager was the product of rape. There
was a half-Klingon on Next Gen too that I liked. Too bad they got rid of her.

People do seem to like hybrids, though. There are other SF shows with
hybrid characters, and fantasy has a lot of half-elves and half-orcs
running around. I think we go for that "I don't really fit in anywhere" >thing, which is a normal part of adolescence and so lives inside us all.

Ditto for Mr Data.

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