Not quite Star Trek, but Rick & Morty did an episode with that as a plot point recently in the season where they only travel the galaxy, not the multiverse. Every planet had some form of prehistoric life, with the interpretations of what they found having more or less the same effect on society, but with different silly names.
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someguy3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I always wondered, did all the other planets have dinosaur periods too?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but i would imagine any place with life will have mass extinction events and that will make it likely that there has been at least one period before the current sapient species where there was a different group of animals in prominence.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s probably implied somewhere that the KT asteroid was part of their life seeding program that started by eliminating predominant species. They would most likely look for the right conditions on a random planet to support life and then inject the biosphere with their creation.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol no prime directive for the dinosaurs.
Zorque@kbin.social 1 year ago
Theyre kicking around the Delta quadrant anyways, though.