Meanwhile, Trelane:

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    I can’t remember which Trek novel it was, but there was a claim that Trelane was a very young member of the Q.

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        Yeah, pretty much every race Kirk and Spock ran into was either Stone Age, late XXth Century, or unimaginably advanced. And they all wore bikinis.

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          Realistically, the chances that other species you encounter in a vast galaxy could be at your same technological level are low

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            That’s one beef I have with the Trek universe; everyone has warp drive and similar ships.

            I want a version where there are plant people who use no metal; or aquatic people who never found fire.

            No more five fingered aliens!

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              That’s one beef I have with the Trek universe; everyone has warp drive and similar ships.

              Well, I love Trek but it’s rather simplistic, the galaxy is essentially an enlarged planet Earth, so it’s kinda fitting that the technology level is equalized, everyone trades and spies, so…

              I want a version where there are plant people who use no metal; or aquatic people who never found fire.

              That’s a budget issue. The story was more important than the alien physiology… With nowaday’s CG it’s going to be easier to do that.

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                The same way you had ‘The Addams Family’ and ‘The Munsters’…

                I want a series that drops all of Trek’s history and starts fresh with a new ship. No five fingered aliens. Truly strange creatures. No Vulcans or Klingons, 100% new.

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                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson

                Poul Anderson was an old school science fiction writer of the Heinlein/Asimov era.

                He specialized in world building, often starting with a sun and then figuring out what the planets would look like. Once he had a good plaent he’d create the inhabitants.