Agree. And it’s stupid to take a human and put some plastic on their head or face and call them an alien.
“Klingon” culture is just Shogun-era Japan.
With Kirk, when it came to aliens, if it was female, seduce it, if male, fight it.
Amen. This has become tedious for me. Virtually every alien you see on virtually every show (not just Star Trek) is some actor wearing makeup, prosthetics or a costume.
It is like they cannot conceive of any species that might exist outside of a "humanoid" shape.
Now this may be in fact a necessary characteristic of an advanced being, but if it is, that has yet to be demonstrated.
I will note that Science Fiction writers postulated Creatures based on Cats, (Man-Kizin Wars, Larry Niven) Bears, (Earthman's Burden, Gordon R. Dickenson) Winged creatures, (The Man who counts, Poul Anderson) Dogs, Insects, and so forth. (I've read such, but cannot remember the names.)
But we mostly see dressed up humans to represent "Aliens" and they all tend to speak English with no reasonable explanation as to how this might be so.
Very annoying that they have so little imagination and creativity.