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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 5976523" data-attributes="member: 926"><p>As Mercule said, Evil races in D&D exist to give the players ad guys to kill without having to agonize over moral choices. Tolkiens orcs were evil spirits clothed in flesh, and not an analog for any existing subset of humanity, as some overzealous moral crusaders have claimed.</p><p></p><p>As for Star Trek being full of one-trick pony aliens... you're just realizing this now? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Trek codified the concept of funny-forehead and planet-of-hats aliens and is notorious for it. Are ALL Klingons noble samurai-viking warriors? I've never seen a Klingon farmer. Guess Klingon farmers and doctors are all condemned to Gre'Thor when they die (where go the souls of those who didn't die in glorious battle.) And with Voyager you picked the absolute lowest point of Star Trek history. While I hated Voyager and thought it was totally lame, DS9 was one of my all-time favorite shows and was MUCH better about it, even though it still had the nearly cookie-cutter Ferengi. But even the Ferengi had Quark and Rom and Nog to show the nuances in the culture. DS9 even gave us a Klingon lawyer in one episode!</p><p> </p><p>Voyager makes my teeth ache. That episode where the Janeway and Paris travel past Warp 10 and go to the future and evo9lve into alien lizards and mate? My God, what cheese!</p><p></p><p>But anyway, it's all storytelling shorthand. In the worst cases it's because the writes are lazy, but hopefully in most cases it's because they just don't have enough time to establish a full character background, and instead they can just use the shorthand of a race's culture and introduce a Klingon and you'll know "violent but maybe noble warrior-race guy" or a Romulan and you'll know "smart, scheming but maybe honorable guy."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 5976523, member: 926"] As Mercule said, Evil races in D&D exist to give the players ad guys to kill without having to agonize over moral choices. Tolkiens orcs were evil spirits clothed in flesh, and not an analog for any existing subset of humanity, as some overzealous moral crusaders have claimed. As for Star Trek being full of one-trick pony aliens... you're just realizing this now? ;) Trek codified the concept of funny-forehead and planet-of-hats aliens and is notorious for it. Are ALL Klingons noble samurai-viking warriors? I've never seen a Klingon farmer. Guess Klingon farmers and doctors are all condemned to Gre'Thor when they die (where go the souls of those who didn't die in glorious battle.) And with Voyager you picked the absolute lowest point of Star Trek history. While I hated Voyager and thought it was totally lame, DS9 was one of my all-time favorite shows and was MUCH better about it, even though it still had the nearly cookie-cutter Ferengi. But even the Ferengi had Quark and Rom and Nog to show the nuances in the culture. DS9 even gave us a Klingon lawyer in one episode! Voyager makes my teeth ache. That episode where the Janeway and Paris travel past Warp 10 and go to the future and evo9lve into alien lizards and mate? My God, what cheese! But anyway, it's all storytelling shorthand. In the worst cases it's because the writes are lazy, but hopefully in most cases it's because they just don't have enough time to establish a full character background, and instead they can just use the shorthand of a race's culture and introduce a Klingon and you'll know "violent but maybe noble warrior-race guy" or a Romulan and you'll know "smart, scheming but maybe honorable guy." [/QUOTE]
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