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Originally posted by SittingDuck:
FIrefly is unconventional in that it's a show set in space that has no aliens. Can anyone else think of other space based SF without aliens?

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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
In my opinion, the alien thing has been done enough. I like Firefly because it focuses on the human experience and human issues in the 'verse.
Aliens are fine, don't get me wrong....the plot seemed to lose sight of the human condition

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Originally posted by Knibblet:

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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
In my opinion, the alien thing has been done enough. I like Firefly because it focuses on the human experience and human issues in the 'verse.
Aliens are fine, don't get me wrong....the plot seemed to lose sight of the human condition

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All genre of fiction is about the same thing - the human condition and human motivation.

In Star Trek, aliens were simply a convenient way of packaging human problems, prejudices and horrors in a "safe non-threatening" package.

The half black - half white guys in classic Trek were a way of presenting color prejudice in a way that would get past network censors and narrow-minded bigots.

The gender neutral people who reproduced assexually in TNG weren't about gender neutral people - they were about homophobia and how people try to label homosexuality a sickness to be cured.

The Gorn wasn't about a lizard. The Gorn was the danger of hating an enemy so much, you destroy yourself in the process.

I could cite hundreds of references, but Haken needs the bandwidth to support all conversations.

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

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Originally posted by Farwall:
I may have missed something here but Red Dwarf did have quite aliens didn't it? The first things that spring to mind are the huge hairy ugly things that Lister gets roped into marrying. Don't remember them having any connections to earth.

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