Timeline for Are there any Star Trek characters that are hybrids of non-human species?
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| Jun 7, 2016 at 21:39 | comment | added | KRyan | @Shane I suggest taking a look at the Wikipedia article on 'species': there is no hard-and-fast definition of species, and thus far the term defies technical specification. In addition to all the hybrids that aren’t (always) incapable of reproduction, there is also unicellular life, which just reproduces in such wildly different ways that the “cannot produce viable offspring” definition doesn’t even begin to make sense. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 20:27 | comment | added | Perkins | It's the same with mules. They are almost always infertile... But not always. In ancient days a mule giving birth was seen as an exceedingly bad omen. These days, modern genetic testing is threatening to completely overturn our ideas about what constitutes a "species" as we're discovering that our tree of what is related to what is full of errors and are finding that some "species" that have been known for a long time are actually true-breeding hybrids of two or more other species that live nearby. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:51 | comment | added | Paul Draper | @Perkins, true. Lions and tiger can (fairly easily) interbreed. But the female offspring are usually infertile, and males are always sterile. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:38 | comment | added | user15742 | @Perkins Nobody suggests they are the same species because the offspring cannot reproduce itself. It has nothing to do with looks. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 19:19 | comment | added | Perkins | @Shane It's a trifle more complicated than just what can interbreed. For example, you can cross lions and tigers, but nobody suggests that the two are the same species because the offspring of such a pairing is significantly different from either parent. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | chepner | @MrLister Romulans are the descendants of Vulcans who rejected logic and left Vulcan. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 16:18 | comment | added | Mr Lister | Romulans and Vulcans are from different planets. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 15:29 | comment | added | Valorum | @Shane - I'm not touching that one with a bargepole after all the downvotes I got for daring to suggest that Hermione Granger had a 'race'. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 15:14 | comment | added | Shane | Although I guess that opens a whole new can of worms. On 21st century Earth what defines a species is whether members can interbreed. According to our current understanding of biology, all the main races are the same species. | |
| Jun 7, 2016 at 15:13 | comment | added | Shane | Surely, any Romulan and Vulcan offspring shouldn't count as as a hybrid of two species? They'd be mixed race, not a hybrid, no? | |
| S Jun 7, 2016 at 5:40 | history | suggested | Basil Bourque | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2016 at 22:59 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2016 at 22:52 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |