Ok, this isn't necessarily utopian, but I would like to see a plot or character that is basically just Zoidberg from Futurama but serious. What I mean by that is, I want an alien character that is clearly intelligent, well-meaning, but also genuinely alien, even kinda scary and gross. I want to see a serious realization of what it would be like to have people live alongside or do diplomacy with these sorts of alien lifeforms.
Like, what if John Carpenter's version of the Thing was just your coworker, or you had to stay on an alien planet full of that shit as part of a diplomatic meeting.
Enterprise is quite underrated, sadly due to the Bush era/Rick Berman bullshit in some of the storytelling, but Season 4 is some good shit. A shame it was canceled, but that ending is
Picard is being all diplomatic but still clearly off-put by their fishy ways. Worf is enamoured by them and calls them "a handsome race" in one of my favourite gags in the series.
Ok, this isn't necessarily utopian, but I would like to see a plot or character that is basically just Zoidberg from Futurama but serious. What I mean by that is, I want an alien character that is clearly intelligent, well-meaning, but also genuinely alien, even kinda scary and gross. I want to see a serious realization of what it would be like to have people live alongside or do diplomacy with these sorts of alien lifeforms.
Like, what if John Carpenter's version of the Thing was just your coworker, or you had to stay on an alien planet full of that shit as part of a diplomatic meeting.
Phlox is this
Well, he's hilarious too.
Enterprise is quite underrated, sadly due to the Bush era/Rick Berman bullshit in some of the storytelling, but Season 4 is some good shit. A shame it was canceled, but that ending is
spoiler
hilariously bad
Okay, this, except the captain/protag eventually makes out with Zoidberg.
They kinda had this with the fish diplomats/assassins in early TNG.
Picard is being all diplomatic but still clearly off-put by their fishy ways. Worf is enamoured by them and calls them "a handsome race" in one of my favourite gags in the series.