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Well they originated during TOS, and having them be Humanoid was the only way to make them convincing.
My philosophy is if you can’t make truly alien aliens, don’t include aliens in your story. The Trek universe is a largely anthropocentric universe anyway, so it would’ve been a better course of action to have made the Vulcans/Klingons/etc. derivations of humanity and left non-human entities out of the picture entirely.
or you could just decide to enjoy the show and not nitpick at how you wish in-universe explanations were this and not that.
One can enjoy a show while still wishing some things had been done differently.
Everyone in the galaxy speaking English doesn’t stop me from enjoying SG-1.
I view SG-1 as a satire. I don’t take it seriously at all. Even then, everything past Season 5 stinks.
I mean, if you’re going to dismiss a common-ancestry explanation as junk science, I don’t see how saying that common ancestor came from Earth would make it any better.
It’s plausible that if humanity ever colonizes space, certain populations will have to resort to genetic manipulation to comfortably exist on worlds with hotter/colder temperatures, higher/lower gravity, etc. Aliens blowing their load on primordial planets and said load evolving into near-identical lifeforms capable of interbreeding* is pure hokum.
*Interbreeding in spite of often having radically divergent body chemistries & anatomies, I might add.