alien origin of the human race theme
The crackpot notion that aliens came to Earth and created the human race.
Examples
The renown Federation archaeologist Richard Galen was hot on the trail of an extinct race of primordial humanoids in tng6x20 "The Chase".
8 total · 3 choice · 3 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Prometheus (2012) | choice | The grand revelation of the film was exactly that the human race was created by aliens. |
| tng6x20 | choice | the primordial humanoid revealed that all the major humanoid races were descended from his stock |
| tz1959e5x09 | choice | The grand revelation of the story is that Adam and Eve were really space aliens. |
| movie: Mission to Mars (2000) | major | A grand revelation of the film is that Martians had seeded Earth with complex life some 100 million years ago. |
| shortstory: The Retreat to Mars (1927) | major | Hargraves discovered that Ancient Martian colonists devolved into our brutish ancestors. |
| tos2x22 | major | Sargon's Species :: Sargon hints that humanoid life is an offshoot of his species |
| movie: Beyond Skyline (2017) | minor | Harper speculated that the aliens had long ago planted human life on Earth "like a crop" and had now returned to reap their harvest. |
| movie: The Guyver (1991) | minor | It was revealed that an alien race known as the Zoanoids had come to Earth a long time ago and there created mankind. |