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I want a hard reboot where there are no humanoid aliens at all.
No Vulcans or Klingons; hell, no bipeds at all!
Oops! All Tribbles!
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I remember reading about something that described this thought in a Star Wars fan site once. The stories that show human characters or human like characters everywhere, aren't really human at all ... they are more like place holders for exotic space alien beings that we can't even imagine.
I'd like to think that of Star Trek as well. The stories are just stories being shown for our convenience because the aliens they would encounter would be so strange and foreign to us that we wouldn't be able to believe it, let alone understand it
Babylon5 was much closer to that that Star Trek was.
Well, the few advanced ones were. But all the others that needed to fit in the budget were all humanoid.
...or were shown in biosuits
Then it wouldn't be Star Trek, which is primarily a sci fi representation of human social conflicts with forehead stuff as a stand in for racial differences.
To the point that Nimoy set out to do “the wall coming down in space” for ST6 as the whole plot.
I'm perfectly happy with it not being 'Star Trek.'
I want a show where we encounter and deal with truly strange new worlds.
Those shows already exist!