Comment by rightbyte
14 days ago
In Star Trek the whole humanoids everywhere thing is an obvious practicality in producing episodes, though.
They spent the whole budget on the salt vampire and never recovered.
14 days ago
In Star Trek the whole humanoids everywhere thing is an obvious practicality in producing episodes, though.
They spent the whole budget on the salt vampire and never recovered.
Well, most sci-fi still fits the bill. Vinge is a bit interesting in that he plays around with the idea with Tines where an “individual” (in human sense) is a pack of 5 of them[0] or with civilizations that “transcend” and then no one has any idea of what are about anymore, and how a bunch of civilizations evolved from humans which explains how they all just happen to operate on equivalent human meatbag scale.
[0] Genuinely not unlike how a congregation of gelled-together humans is an entity that can achieve much more than an individual human.