TNG s6e12 "Ship in a Bottle"
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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I mean, I don’t hate your head cannon, but I have always felt it was more just a limitation of the show and my head cannon is that we just aren’t seeing the diversity that exists on screen.
For most of shows it was more expensive (or impossible) to have a CG character rather than a human played one. So for instance in Enterprise, we see the human adjacent Xindi species far more often than the Insectoids or the Aquatics and the only real reason is that they were expensive to animate.
Your point is well demonstrated when we see Archer on an Aquatic’s ship later in season 3. But that would suggest to me that we just aren’t seeing the Aquatics at Starfleet Academy, not that they aren’t there.
Eh. I like to create in-universe explanations for things I observe in shows. Obviously the real answer comes down to filming. But who wants that?