In Star Trek, there are many intelligent species and perhaps two main ones:
Klingons
Vulcans/Romulans
In the Technic History, there are many intelligent species and perhaps four main ones:
Merseians
Ythrians
Wodenites
Cynthians
Wodenites and Cynthians are mainly represented through individuals:
Adzel, then Axor;
Chee Lan - and some others.
But perhaps the closest parallel to Spock is the Chereionite, Aycharaych: pointed ears and a more powerful telepath but on the other side.
Trekkies should read Anderson and Blish.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The problem is, however, that aside from a few of his works, like A CASE OF CONSCIENCE, Blish seems to be fading away into obscurity. Which I hope does not happen to Anderson's stories.
Fans of Peter Jackson's overrated HOBBIT and LOTR movies should read Tolkien's actual stories. THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS are so much better than the movies.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: a movie is equivalent to a short story or at most a novella -- it has less information density than a written work.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, of course. But what esp. outraged me about Jackson's movies were the uncanonical additions and distortions he had the infernal gall to add to the stories. I know some slimming down of the plots of long stories will be necessary for filmed adaptations. The HOBBIT and LOTR movies would/could have been so much better if they had been more strictly faithful to the plots.
Ad astra! Sean
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