WOW, that is something I never considered, interesting outside the box thinking.
I did not consider it, because it was never told to us. That also the only reason why, I would say it never happened.

Interesting,

Wesely, is more like my brother, but even better, than I, with challenges. Wesely has no challenges?

It was significantly harder as a writer to research a subject before the 2000s than it is today. This is before Wikipedia and Google where researching a topic like this could take months and misinformation was harder to refute.

Maybe, unlike & most I grew-up & lived 28-years, before 2000. I totally disagree, go the other way, especially with misinformation. Example Wikipedia allows biased & Etc. people to take-out truth & put in their biased BLANK.

Look at how they did poor Chakotay.

Remind me who is that character?

I think Bashir is “lucky” not because the surgery didn’t have extreme side effects. He is lucky because his parents pushing him resulted in him being the type of person that society could accept. His trauma made him a people pleaser rather than a recluse or a hedonist or neurotic.

He freely admitted to that his parents has the resources to better scientist to do the procedures.

I dislike section 312, just continue Rich-Super Rich Economic Classes/Owners allowed dribble that is everywhere.

Had not thought about that, that is great point. With that being said, what like ‘The Deep Space 9’ characters they would have those challenges, on top of their superior intelligence & such skills?

‘Babylon 5’ & ‘Farscape’ were ‘Star Trek’ series, since when & how?

I will try to give it a try, only if it costs me nothing, to do so.

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I think it would be a good time to summarize the answers from repliers I have received, which I appreciate, when the answered why the series after the first 3-series. Plus my quick thoughts on the answers, I do not think I missed any, It is going to be very general, not as detailed some might want.

Cost of doing non-humanoid shape aliens, but since we talking advancing technologies after ‘The Next Generation’ lowering costs & series like the very next series in ‘Deep Space Nine’ starting-existing on new & cheap networks, like ‘Deep Space Nine’s starting on ‘Paramount’ owned ‘Viacom’ & rest of existence on ‘UPN’. These networks are NOT going to spend money & resources on the series, even if they brought it about, if they are NOT getting the audience ratings. Wait, wait & wait a sec. here I have add a huge addition to my above comments, cannot believe I did not think of this first-time, The Networks will also cancel or put a lot pressure on programming that not fit their politics-political messaging. Network censorship caused?

Time it takes to do that effects to have non-humanoid shaped aliens, but again advancing technologies lowers the time factor as well & depends upon what networks are willing to accept.

Complexity of communicating with rest of crew & Etc., but I think of the movie ‘Contact’ solving the very problem. Plus they all have universal translators,

Complexity of manipulating the machines involved in the space travel, but ‘Star Trek’ series like ‘Enterprise’ already have had aliens that are not able to traditionally, by our biases, manipulate the machines are still able to manipulate the machines. Example of ‘Enterprise’ has regular aliens that can only live in liquid/water. The original series had aliens that did not even need spaceships, let alone manipulating machines.

There were series that have had non-Humanoid Shaped aliens, but they are few & far between or not important characters or that last past a episode or two.

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Last one, I am going to introduce myself, because I have the feeling that some repliers believe it is at least a factor- SciFi audience is not ready to not see themselves/humanoid shaped in almost every single Being in a ‘Star Trek’ series. My response is simple & equally serious, I have a lot more faith in The SciFi & ‘Star Trek’ audiences. I think they would not only accept at least some of the characters, especially some main characters, being of non-Humanoid Shaped, but they would love it & reward the series that does it.

Maybe, I was too quick & tough with last reply, sorry. I just have gotten tired of too many, one is too many, repliers bogging down the discussions within the first 3-series (the original-Animated Series-The Next Generation) when clearly the post starting this thread clearly asks- Why does the Star Trek series (after the first 3; starting with ‘Deep Space 9’) only has humanoid shaped aliens?

Not a problem if done after the 1st three Star Trek series-now, & that was the point to starting this thread. We are exchanging over nothing, to put it nicely.

There had been water based Beings, never leave water, in I think The Star Trek’s series was named ‘Enterprise’ that had enemy that never left water. Plus your points,

Also remember ‘Deep Space 9’ was on a brandnew channel-UPN, that ran out of resources given to the series, when it did not high big with viewers, source from the documentary’The Center Seat’. Had the huge & established channel taken on the series, then expenses you mentioned might not been an issue at all.

Repliers (like yourself) keep missing this part of my post that started this thread- “The first three TV series figured this out”. So yes, I already knew about The Original Series (which is what I think of, when I think of the first three ‘Star Trek’ series with in non-humanoid aliens), ‘The Animated Series’ & ‘The Next Generation’ use of non-Humanoid aliens.
Some repliers also keep missing the rest of that sentence of my post that started this thread- “, but since then everything I have seen has only Humanoid shape aliens.”, when they keep sticking only to the first three series.

No I obviously was not thinking the ‘90s technology was available; talk confusing writing.

I was thinking, since all I have heard was it is too expensive, that they should just use The ‘60s’ technology to do it. This might sound interesting, considering I was talking about using ‘60s’ technology , but the puppets idea seems childish or is just outdated.

I never watched that, because cartoon.

I guess, maybe, I should just watch the cartoon, because of what your reply indicates.

That is from our land loving species perspectives.

That is a great point, I never thought of. What huge logical hole. I just couple nights watched the original, where they explained how a device a NONHUMANOID ALIEN created it’s own translator.

So you are saying, I should rewatch ‘TNG’s The Chase episode, over Discovery’s 4th season?