RobofNJ — 1 year ago(April 16, 2024 02:18 AM)

Rather than truly alien species. I know the Borg were their first true actual alien species, then the Cardassians, who were the next big threat to the major 3 (or 4 if you count the Ferengi as a threat) after the Borg, as I had a hard time relating to either.
In the early episodes it seemed that every alien had some endearing human quality, the Pakleds are stupid, but you could relate to them. The Romulans of course you could relate to, conservative, ghetto, hard-hitting, patriots. The Klingons had the violent rituals and held nature sacred, they loved to drink and fight. The Vulcans are honorable and believe in controlling their emotions, and value academics and scientific advancements, like a higher more progressed form of human. Even the giant ear-looking Ferengi end up being human-like, they were comical. Their first episodes had them mysterious but later episodes had them as comic relief. But they were human-like even before
DS9
, and we saw the workings of their cultures. They definitely were more out of something fantasy like the original
Lord of the Rings
. Even during Berman they kept some of that humanism. Cardassian episodes were for war episodes, and they were hardly explored. They were truly alien.
Even in
DS9
, it seemed they kept the humanism. Of course you have the Feregni storylines. Then the Klingons were explored, even though they still felt like one-dimensional beings. The Cardassians always came off as alien though. Like I couldn't relate to them, and I think that was the point. They were into their technology. Their world had truly alien architecture.
Seems the only show to really be alien and sci-fi (yes this show had the technology, but they weren't futuristic at the expense of the old things [one of their planets even had high mast highway lights and I'm talking the episode where Wesley is sentenced to death for breaking a law on their planet) was
Voyager
(
Babylon 5
is somewhat conflicting, but
Stargate SGI
is the equivilent of
Voyager
, it's all technology and technobabble).