To get off topic they all look like humans because they are supposed
to.  The idea is that the bad guys populated a whole bunch of worlds
with humans for slaves.  Now star trek has a problem with only humanoid
aliens.  

Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <3957C9C3.446B4982@faricy.net>, David Fontaine
> <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:
> 
> > Very realistic! The movie was kinda good, but from what I've seen of
> > the TV show IMHO it's kinda not... Interesting render subject
> > nonetheless.
> 
> It varies from episode to episode...generally they are pretty good(The
> best SF show on local TV here, actually.), but there are a few which are
> just plain boring or have bad plot flaws.
> They do tend to suffer from the problems of having aliens look like
> humans in costumes, but they also have good non-humanoid aliens. And
> most of the time they are interacting with humans on other worlds, so it
> isn't so bad.
> They also handle language fairly well(the characters appearing surprised
> when an alien speaks up in english, for example, and having an
> explanation for it), though there were a couple episodes where they
> really blew this one too.
> 
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