In Star Trek, basically everyone is a human with facial make-up; are there any instances where character comment on this and attempt at an in-universe explanation of this within this franchise?
Note, I am not asking what the in-universe reason is, rather whether, in-universe, characters have made comment on the abundance of humanoids and attempted to explain it.
Note:formerly this question was for Star Trek and Star Wars, which was too broad. Removed SW because most of the answers and the accepted one related to Star Trek.
Answer
It was addressed three times in Star Trek. Two are explicit, one referential.
- The ancient humanoid's species from TNG 6x20, The Chase seeded the galaxy with humanoid life first, around 4.5 billion years ago.
- Sargon's people from TOS 2x22, Return to Tomorrow, seeded the galaxy a second time, around 600,000 years ago.
- VOY 3x23, Distant Origin brings up convergent evolution. In the Star Trek universe, the humanoid shape is one path to sentience that happens to be pretty common - although it may only be common because of the ancient humanoids. It seems likely that the hadrosaurs were also influenced by what the ancient humanoids did on Earth.
Like the other answers, I have yet to see any reference to the phenomenon in Star Wars.
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