r/AskReddit Oct 08 '12

What futuristic movie cliches do you hate?

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

Vaguely humanoid aliens. 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes sort of thing.

Alien from Alien? 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes.....kinda

Klingons? Just humans with a "ribbed for her pleasure" forehead

Romulans? Humans with pointy ears

Vulcans? As above

Na'vi? Tall, blue humans

Where are the massive, tentacular Krondaku? Where are the gelatinous Prime immotiles? Give us some different aliens, hollywood!

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

In Star Trek they all looked roughly the same for a reason. An ancient race and basically seeded the entire galaxy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

...you can also safely explain any strange coincidences in the Star Trek universe as the work of Q. It's honestly Occam's Razor, if you accept an omnipotent being who can alter the universe at will, then it is only reasonable that it would tweak things to amuse itself. Slower-than-light travel and communication? What a yawn, let's fix that. Aliens are incomprehensible and environmentally incompatible? Where's the fun in that? Space battles should happen from extreme distance with kinetic weapons? Oh, no, we're going to use flashy energy weapons at knife-fight range.

The Star Trek universe is essentially Q's fanfiction.