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Sci Fi Alien Races
I was just thinking about Behind the Planet of the Apes which I posted about.
On Star Trek we had Kirk, Sulu and Uhura on the Enterprise. 3 Flavors of Humans so to speak. Vulcans, on TOS however were largely the same looking, caucasian based race. Tim Russ commented on Voyager that he thought all Vulcans should be Black. But that was later.
So I was thinking that Apes had Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orangutans representing 3 types of the Ape race.
Are there any other movies that show an "Alien" Race with multiple sub-races/types?
I can't think of any, but it is 3:30am.
I just thought I'd throw this out there. Another distinction for Apes perhaps. And if you have an example does it pre-date or post-date the Apes series?
I think Trek, until Tuvok, pretty much treated all races as the Same... except I understand that Andorians were split into at least 2 types on Enterprise. I never really watched DS9, Voyager or Enterprise so there may be other examples there too.
Thought this was interesting. I know a lower budget production may not have the resources to do multiple types of a Alien and that if the Aliens were not developed a lot, they would not have a need to do it either, but how about Babylon 5?
I didn't watch it either but they had a LOT of Aliens I think. Were all the Aliens of a given race pretty much the same?
Does this post make sense? I'm going to bed now, see you all later perhaps.
On Star Trek we had Kirk, Sulu and Uhura on the Enterprise. 3 Flavors of Humans so to speak. Vulcans, on TOS however were largely the same looking, caucasian based race. Tim Russ commented on Voyager that he thought all Vulcans should be Black. But that was later.
So I was thinking that Apes had Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orangutans representing 3 types of the Ape race.
Are there any other movies that show an "Alien" Race with multiple sub-races/types?
I can't think of any, but it is 3:30am.
I just thought I'd throw this out there. Another distinction for Apes perhaps. And if you have an example does it pre-date or post-date the Apes series?
I think Trek, until Tuvok, pretty much treated all races as the Same... except I understand that Andorians were split into at least 2 types on Enterprise. I never really watched DS9, Voyager or Enterprise so there may be other examples there too.
Thought this was interesting. I know a lower budget production may not have the resources to do multiple types of a Alien and that if the Aliens were not developed a lot, they would not have a need to do it either, but how about Babylon 5?
I didn't watch it either but they had a LOT of Aliens I think. Were all the Aliens of a given race pretty much the same?
Does this post make sense? I'm going to bed now, see you all later perhaps.
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