fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days agoYou have to be orchidding me!mander.xyzimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1203arrow-down14
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minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·2 days agoThere was a TNG episode that said essentially that; there was a precursor species that ‘seeded’ humanoids across the Galaxy. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chase_(episode)
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoOf course, they supposedly did that when all life on Earth originated, so it doesn’t make any more sense for us to be able to interbreed with species on other worlds than it does with any other living thing on Earth.
minus-squareCort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoAnd the progenitors were expanded upon in discovery too
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 days agobut why do they look like the founders?
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoDo you mean 'why do they look “humanoid?” ’
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agotheir faces have similar make up to Odo’s people.
minus-squareHonytawk@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoMaybe great ancestors of the founders.
There was a TNG episode that said essentially that; there was a precursor species that ‘seeded’ humanoids across the Galaxy.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chase_(episode)
Of course, they supposedly did that when all life on Earth originated, so it doesn’t make any more sense for us to be able to interbreed with species on other worlds than it does with any other living thing on Earth.
And the progenitors were expanded upon in discovery too
but why do they look like the founders?
Do you mean 'why do they look “humanoid?” ’
their faces have similar make up to Odo’s people.
Maybe great ancestors of the founders.