alien point of view theme

Someone struggles to understand someone else because they are physiologically different kinds of beings.

Notes

There are a lot of stories that feature beings that are said to be alien, or otherwise non-human, but that for all intents and purposes act just like humans. This theme should only be applied if a point is being made about a physiological difference. The motivation should indicate what it was.

100 total · 25 choice · 48 major · 27 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
bbf2x03 choice Drazi killing each others over colored sashes
ds91x01/02 choice wormhole aliens not understanding the human experience of time, human corporality, death, and other aspects of being human
ds94x08 choice Humans were savages with nuclear weapons and cigarettes from the point of view of the Ferengi
ds97x14 choice The shapeshifter Laas struggled to live among humanoids aboard the space station.
ent1x05 choice T'Pol tut-tutted as Tucker, to his dismay, learned that unprotected cavorting with a cute alien babe could leave him pregnant with said alien babe's child.
ent1x12 choice We were shown that what seemed obvious to humans, such as answering a call and not attacking randomly for no reason, may not be so for an alien species.
ldr2019e4x05 choice The story speculates about the cats' and robots' point of view in a world where they are subjugated by humans.
rbt1985e5x01 choice A point of the story is to speculate that humans and, for example, Martians might fatally misunderstand each other due, for example, the Martians having telepathic abilities that humans do not.
tas2x02 choice BEM was a being composed of autonomous body parts and this, apparently, caused him to have very strange ways that the humans had trouble understanding.
tng1x07 choice An incorporeal alien entity struggled to comprehend what was going on when the Enterprise inadvertently whisked it away from the energy cloud in space that it called home.