Admitted Trek fan here, but TNG at least made an attempt at why all the intelligent life in the galaxy (at least in the part where the show takes place) all look very similar in the episode titled "The Chase." Short version is that a long time ago there was only one intelligent species inthe entire galaxy, and they went around looking for other life like themselves. Didn't find any, so they seeded different planets with parts of their genetic material, and life evolved from that. So in some weird sense they all have "common ancestry." It was a pretty good episode overall, and a decent attempt at explaining things.ghostrunner wrote:I thought Farscape looked interesting and I liked that they went further in making different races than Star Trek. By that I mean they didn't just use a forehead prosthetic. However, that little mustachioed puppet character scared me off.
Plus, you've got the changelings and so on....
No puppets though. At least not since the original series, though most of their aliens were amorphous clouds of glowing gas. Not sure which is better.
