
At least in Iron Sky — The Coming Race he was an alien! Good movie, go see it.
Designing Intelligent Aliens
Those of you who know me know that I spend a lot of time 0n Science Daily. Some of it is book research, but 95% is pure curiosity. This part came out of research for a novel (no, I won’t tell you why Homo erectus is relevant to a novel set in the present day), and I was totally shocked.
I always thought Star Trek’s aliens were a joke, but much to my surprise Star Trek got aliens mostly right. Seriously. Unfortunately this article wasn’t planned, and I’m not sure I’ll be able to find all of the research papers I used, but I’ll try to explain why Star Trek was right, and Babylon 5 wrong.