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Does this mean humans are the same species as vulcans, klingons, romulans, betazoids, trill, ocampa, and ktarians?
There was a TNG episode that said essentially that; there was a precursor species that 'seeded' humanoids across the Galaxy.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chase_(episode)
Of course, they supposedly did that when all life on Earth originated, so it doesn't make any more sense for us to be able to interbreed with species on other worlds than it does with any other living thing on Earth.
And the progenitors were expanded upon in discovery too
but why do they look like the founders?
Do you mean 'why do they look "humanoid?" '
their faces have similar make up to Odo's people.
yes. that's why star trek is bullshit in that regard. if we ever met extraterrestrials and they happen to look anything like humans at all, the biochemical differences will be so severe that there's absolutely no chance at all that they would be able to produce viable offspring with humans.
The original retro-futuristic furries.
Presumably yes.
But for a bigger picture question, are all of those others able to interbreed with each other, as well? If yes, they are basically like different races of human or breed of domestic animal. If not, it gets much more interesting in terms of classification.