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davidn3600

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5. It works in Star Trek

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 11, 2016, 05:46 PM

Jan 2016

Several characters in the Star Trek universe are "half-human."

Star Trek gets away with it by relying on the theory of alien seeding. It's basically suggesting that life evolved because ancient aliens put it here as well as thousands of other planets and that the humanoid life has similar enough genetics to mate.

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