Re: Monoculture Aliens, etc.

Steve Pugh wrote:
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> What is the excuse for the Centauri, Narn, Drazi, Draconians, Ice
> Warriors, Betazoids or Kazon being mono-culture? There isn't one.
> :-(
AHA! For the Centauri there is a very good reason. Thye were not the
only sentient race to originate on their homeworld, and over the
millenia, they battled the other race for supremecy, and eventual
extinction. Long years of constant warfare will force a race into a
monoculture, simply for survivals sake.
 As for the Kazon, the show (ST Voyager) has clearly stated that there
are many different factions of Kazons, and that they have only been
encountering a few of those factions.
 The Narn are victims of the Centauri, along with the unifying force of
their religion. 
 One of the problems with this entire thread is the assumption that we
are typical, i.e. that if there are multiple cultures on this planet
there MUST be the same thing out there. Not only is assuming anything
slightly silly, but also the "Earth is just a typical planet" idea is
almost as arrogant as the "Earth is special" one. There might be any
number of reasons that almost every other species is monocultural, and
many for the idea that this is wrong, but the bottom line is that we
just don't know. If a writer chooses to make alien races monocultural,
for any reason but that he just didn't think, it's their call.
 
>	  Cheers,
>		  Steve
> 
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