It’s probably implied somewhere that the KT asteroid was part of their life seeding program that started by eliminating predominant species. They would most likely look for the right conditions on a random planet to support life and then inject the biosphere with their creation.
Not quite Star Trek, but Rick & Morty did an episode with that as a plot point recently in the season where they only travel the galaxy, not the multiverse. Every planet had some form of prehistoric life, with the interpretations of what they found having more or less the same effect on society, but with different silly names.
Was just fun to see the idea explored. Trek would have probably taken it a bit more seriously though.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but i would imagine any place with life will have mass extinction events and that will make it likely that there has been at least one period before the current sapient species where there was a different group of animals in prominence.
There are civilizations that were around for ages before we made fire in Star Trek, and lots of primitiveraces too. Hell, in Voyager they found a race of Terran dinosaurs that escaped Earth before the asteroid hit. They’re one of the stronger races in their region of space, but are far from top dog in the Quandrant, implying several societies are possibly millions of years old. Not every race will follow a similar tech advancement, but a couple probably do, anyway.
Well some trek aliens are still closer to dinosaurs than mammals.
But I think that more likely no. Generally the evolution of trek species is meant to be more straightforward than that of humans. I believe Klingons had some ancient large creatures equivalent to our dinosaurs, but they were mammals too. And Andoria doesn’t really change much at all.
Can’t recall where I have this stuff from though. Probably non-canon sources.
I always wondered, did all the other planets have dinosaur periods too?
It’s probably implied somewhere that the KT asteroid was part of their life seeding program that started by eliminating predominant species. They would most likely look for the right conditions on a random planet to support life and then inject the biosphere with their creation.
Lol no prime directive for the dinosaurs.
Theyre kicking around the Delta quadrant anyways, though.
Not quite Star Trek, but Rick & Morty did an episode with that as a plot point recently in the season where they only travel the galaxy, not the multiverse. Every planet had some form of prehistoric life, with the interpretations of what they found having more or less the same effect on society, but with different silly names.
Was just fun to see the idea explored. Trek would have probably taken it a bit more seriously though.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but i would imagine any place with life will have mass extinction events and that will make it likely that there has been at least one period before the current sapient species where there was a different group of animals in prominence.
I mean it’s awfully convenient that the sentient species all arose at the same time. There were billions of years of dumb animals.
There are civilizations that were around for ages before we made fire in Star Trek, and lots of primitiveraces too. Hell, in Voyager they found a race of Terran dinosaurs that escaped Earth before the asteroid hit. They’re one of the stronger races in their region of space, but are far from top dog in the Quandrant, implying several societies are possibly millions of years old. Not every race will follow a similar tech advancement, but a couple probably do, anyway.
Well some trek aliens are still closer to dinosaurs than mammals.
But I think that more likely no. Generally the evolution of trek species is meant to be more straightforward than that of humans. I believe Klingons had some ancient large creatures equivalent to our dinosaurs, but they were mammals too. And Andoria doesn’t really change much at all.
Can’t recall where I have this stuff from though. Probably non-canon sources.