thanks to @enterprisery I am thinking about Trek-type bird aliens again. (yes I know TAS has bird aliens but I don’t mean those guys, okay?)
And you know I feel like I’ve talked a lot about what they would look like in terms of feathers and wings and such.
What is really important tho: Can they kiss? Can they fuck?
and I say, Why not??
I think instead of terrestrial bird beaks, they would have lips and such almost like ours. Inside, they would have hardened ridges instead of teeth, like an internal beak. Also their faces would be a bit sharper.
Also! Yes of course they can fuck. But they are birds. Tho many bird species do have penises, not all of them do. I think it would be interesting if they all just have cloacas with no phallus inside. I figure the surrounding tissue would be very sensitive. They prob could be fucked but it might not do much for them, bc like, why would it?
I also think we could just throw gender out the goddam window. Yes most birds have sexual dimorphism, but! Not all of them. And many species have same sex couples who “adopt” abandoned (or not so abandoned) chicks and raise them. I feel like the aliens would make little distinction between a family like this and one that has made its own egg, so to speak.
They definitely lay eggs. I think it would be exceptionally difficult for them to interbreed with the more purely mammalian races, but could possibly have success with Cardassians and maybe the Gorn?
Also they absolutely evolved from something that looked a lot like dinosaurs.
(Sometimes I think things like “what if the Hebitians had feathers?”)
anyway bird alien thoughts for the day! anyone have thoughts or ideas to add?
