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* ''TabletopGame/{{Mindjammer}}'': Since its whole premise is being ''transhuman'' space opera, these fill the role of what normally be HumanoidAliens in most other SpaceOpera settings. During the First Age of Space, Earth sent numerous slower-than-light ships across the galaxy. Over the next 10 thousand years, the colonists often had to genetically modify themselves to the new environments, resulting in a wide variety of sub-species that are broadly human despite sometimes looking radically different.
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There are two broad ways in which these entities are portrayed. In the first, they'll be actual {{Transhuman}}s, whose inhuman or post-human state is the result of centuries, millennia or more of increasing technological or spiritual advancement and modifications to the original human form. These are often cyborgs, {{Energy Being}}s or aliens highly similar to TheGreys -- indeed, the Greys being far-future human descendants is a common element in conspiracy theories related to them. These posthumans will often be amoral or disinterested in modern humans, but there are occasional instances of uplifted humans who having experienced TheSingularity who are benevolent and god-like. In the second case, they'll instead be bestial creatures, often a FormerlySapientSpecies regressed to animalistic ways, and physically monstrous in the bargain.
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There are two broad ways in which these entities are portrayed. In the first, they'll be actual {{Transhuman}}s, whose inhuman or post-human state is the result of centuries, millennia or more of increasing technological or spiritual advancement and modifications to the original human form. These are often cyborgs, {{Energy Being}}s EnergyBeings or aliens highly similar to TheGreys -- indeed, the Greys being far-future human descendants is a common element in conspiracy theories related to them. These posthumans will often be amoral or disinterested in modern humans, but there are occasional instances of uplifted humans who having experienced TheSingularity who are benevolent and god-like. In the second case, they'll instead be bestial creatures, often a FormerlySapientSpecies regressed to animalistic ways, and physically monstrous in the bargain.
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* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'': TheReveal in ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'' is that the EldritchAbomination villains are actually [[spoiler:a trio of Earth superhumans who had evolved far beyond human form and had gotten stuck on the wrong side of a dimensional barrier in the process.]]
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* ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'' miniseries, Tim Hunter [[spoiler:briefly visits a distant future in which humans have evolved into eerie plant-animal hybrids]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'': The many races of the Microverse are all descended from a [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earthswordinthestar.htm future humanity]] which fled through time, space and dimensions to escape a genocidal war.
* ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'': The Sheeda are a future posthuman species that robs the past to support their resource-poor civilization.
* ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'': The many races of the Microverse are all descended from a [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earthswordinthestar.htm future humanity]] which fled through time, space and dimensions to escape a genocidal war.
* ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'': The Sheeda are a future posthuman species that robs the past to support their resource-poor civilization.
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* ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'' miniseries, In ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'', Tim Hunter [[spoiler:briefly visits a distant future in which humans have evolved into eerie plant-animal hybrids]].
*''ComicBook/{{Micronauts|MarvelComics}}'': ''ComicBook/MicronautsMarvelComics'': The many races of the Microverse are all descended from a [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earthswordinthestar.htm future humanity]] which fled through time, space and dimensions to escape a genocidal war.
*''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'': ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005'': The Sheeda are a future posthuman species that robs the past to support their resource-poor civilization.civilization.
* TheReveal in ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'' is that the EldritchAbomination villains are actually [[spoiler:a trio of Earth superhumans who had evolved far beyond human form and had gotten stuck on the wrong side of a dimensional barrier in the process]].
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* ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'': The creatures are at first assumed to be aliens that somehow got aboard the ship. It's revealed [[spoiler:that they were humans that, like everyone on board, were exposed to an agent to accelerate their evolution and evolved to life on the ship.]]
* ''Film/{{Pandorum}}'': The creatures are at first assumed to be aliens that somehow got aboard the ship. It's revealed [[spoiler:that they were humans that, like everyone on board, were exposed to an agent to accelerate their evolution and evolved to life on the ship]].
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** ''Literature/HouseOfSuns'': The galaxy is home to staggeringly diverse beings, from sea-life to giant space-dwellers to semi-sentient weather, all of which are in fact evolved or modified human stock. The only reason the central characters are remotely recognizable as human comes of their spending the eons since the original diaspora flitting around at relativistic speeds and thus have passed much less subjective time in the meanwhile.
** ''Literature/RevelationSpace'': The Ultras vary from human-seeming to animated works of art; the Skyjacks are permanently adapted for life in space; the Stoners are heavily augmented humans who go so far as swapping sexes and appearances the way most people choose hairstyles -- Zebra, in Chasm City, has horselike legs, zebra stripe skin pigmentation, a mohawk that runs all the way down her spine, horselike ''eyes'', and [[GenderBender hasn't always been female]]. Not that any of that gives the hero a moment's pause before bedding her. In Zima Blue, outside of the Revelation Space universe, an artist who appears to be a transhuman turns out to be [[spoiler:a pool-cleaning robot who developed sentience and modified itself repeatedly over the centuries.]]
** ''Literature/HouseOfSuns'': The galaxy is home to staggeringly diverse beings, from sea-life to giant space-dwellers to semi-sentient weather, all of which are in fact evolved or modified human stock. The only reason the central characters are remotely recognizable as human comes of their spending the eons since the original diaspora flitting around at relativistic speeds and thus have passed much less subjective time in the meanwhile.
** ''Literature/RevelationSpace'': The Ultras vary from human-seeming to animated works of art; the Skyjacks are permanently adapted for life in space; the Stoners are heavily augmented humans who go so far as swapping sexes and appearances the way most people choose hairstyles -- Zebra, in Chasm City, has horselike legs, zebra stripe skin pigmentation, a mohawk that runs all the way down her spine, horselike ''eyes'', and [[GenderBender hasn't always been female]]. Not that any of that gives the hero a moment's pause before bedding her. In Zima Blue, outside of the Revelation Space universe, an artist who appears to be a transhuman turns out to be [[spoiler:a pool-cleaning robot who developed sentience and modified itself repeatedly over the centuries.]]
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* In “The Dragon Masters” by Creeator/JackVance, al human colony is plagued by alien kidnappers. After fighting back and taking captives, the story shifts ahead many years, and the captive aliens have been bred into [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons of many breeds with many purposes]]. When the alien slavers return, it's revealed that they have [[BodyHorror done the same with their human captives]].
* ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' by Creator/DanSimmons. In ''The Fall of Hyperion'', [[spoiler:the Ousters have modified their DNA to varying degrees; the more extreme variants have wings and are capable of flying unassisted in space]].
* ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'': Much of the book is about various genetically engineered species of humans, starting with future descendants of modern humanity who become entirely dependent on technological cradles to survive and later replace these with genetically engineered bodies unique to each individual and, after the collapse of their society, to multiple kinds of [[FormerlySapientSpecies non-sapient human species]] created to replace long-extinct mammalian megafauna. The book ends with an alien species coming to earth and destroying all life on land, who themselves are the evolved remnants of the humans who went into space at the beginning of the book.
* ''Literature/ManifoldTime'' and ''Literature/ManifoldOrigin'': The Downstreamers are descendants of the human species from the very end of time, after the heat death of the universe. Since much or all of the material universe has disappeared in their time, they function as disembodied minds hosted in a computational sub-stratum of the Universe itself, where they can survive indefinitely. This allows them to access entire galaxies' worth of energy and complete control over space and time. [[BlessedWithSuck It doesn't mean they enjoy it]], however.
* ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' by Creator/DanSimmons. In ''The Fall of Hyperion'', [[spoiler:the Ousters have modified their DNA to varying degrees; the more extreme variants have wings and are capable of flying unassisted in space]].
* ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'': Much of the book is about various genetically engineered species of humans, starting with future descendants of modern humanity who become entirely dependent on technological cradles to survive and later replace these with genetically engineered bodies unique to each individual and, after the collapse of their society, to multiple kinds of [[FormerlySapientSpecies non-sapient human species]] created to replace long-extinct mammalian megafauna. The book ends with an alien species coming to earth and destroying all life on land, who themselves are the evolved remnants of the humans who went into space at the beginning of the book.
* ''Literature/ManifoldTime'' and ''Literature/ManifoldOrigin'': The Downstreamers are descendants of the human species from the very end of time, after the heat death of the universe. Since much or all of the material universe has disappeared in their time, they function as disembodied minds hosted in a computational sub-stratum of the Universe itself, where they can survive indefinitely. This allows them to access entire galaxies' worth of energy and complete control over space and time. [[BlessedWithSuck It doesn't mean they enjoy it]], however.
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* In “The "The Dragon Masters” Masters" by Creeator/JackVance, al Creator/JackVance, a human colony is plagued by alien kidnappers. After fighting back and taking captives, the story shifts ahead many years, and the captive aliens have been bred into [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons dragons of many breeds with many purposes]]. When the alien slavers return, it's revealed that they have [[BodyHorror done the same with their human captives]].
*''Literature/HyperionCantos'' by Creator/DanSimmons. ''Literature/HouseOfSuns'': The galaxy is home to staggeringly diverse beings, from sea-life to giant space-dwellers to semi-sentient weather, all of which are in fact evolved or modified human stock. The only reason the central characters are remotely recognizable as human comes of their spending the eons since the original diaspora flitting around at relativistic speeds and thus have passed much less subjective time in the meanwhile.
* ''Literature/HyperionCantos'': In ''The Fall of Hyperion'', [[spoiler:the Ousters have modified their DNA to varying degrees; the more extreme variants have wings and are capable of flying unassisted in space]].
*''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'': Much of the book ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'' is about various genetically engineered species of humans, starting with future descendants of modern humanity who become entirely dependent on technological cradles to survive and later replace these with genetically engineered bodies unique to each individual and, after the collapse of their society, to multiple kinds of [[FormerlySapientSpecies non-sapient human species]] created to replace long-extinct mammalian megafauna. The book ends with an alien species coming to earth and destroying all life on land, who themselves are the evolved remnants of the humans who went into space at the beginning of the book.
* The Downstreamers from ''Literature/ManifoldTime'' and''Literature/ManifoldOrigin'': The Downstreamers ''Literature/ManifoldOrigin'' are descendants of the human species from the very end of time, after the heat death of the universe. Since much or all of the material universe has disappeared in their time, they function as disembodied minds hosted in a computational sub-stratum of the Universe itself, where they can survive indefinitely. This allows them to access entire galaxies' worth of energy and complete control over space and time. [[BlessedWithSuck It doesn't mean they enjoy it]], however.
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* ''Literature/HyperionCantos'': In ''The Fall of Hyperion'', [[spoiler:the Ousters have modified their DNA to varying degrees; the more extreme variants have wings and are capable of flying unassisted in space]].
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* ''Literature/PhobosMayanFear'': The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, [[spoiler:specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.]]
* ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'' by Creator/CSLewis. In ''That Hideous Strength'', it becomes apparent that the Moon became as desolate as it is because the {{Lunarians}} tried to destroy their bodies and become pure minds. The mad attempt destroyed their civilization and the few not to attempt bodiless immortality have been struggling to survive on the dark side of the Moon. It turns out that the goal of the earthly N.I.C.E. is to repeat the process on Earth with some help from [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the Macrobes]] to ensure no savages survive blemish their untainted universe.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Several ExpandedUniverse novels have the crew meeting "aliens" who turn out to be heavily modified humans.
* ''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'' by Creator/CSLewis. In ''That Hideous Strength'', it becomes apparent that the Moon became as desolate as it is because the {{Lunarians}} tried to destroy their bodies and become pure minds. The mad attempt destroyed their civilization and the few not to attempt bodiless immortality have been struggling to survive on the dark side of the Moon. It turns out that the goal of the earthly N.I.C.E. is to repeat the process on Earth with some help from [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the Macrobes]] to ensure no savages survive blemish their untainted universe.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Several ExpandedUniverse novels have the crew meeting "aliens" who turn out to be heavily modified humans.
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* ''Literature/PhobosMayanFear'': The grey aliens held captive in Area 51 turn to be transhumans from the future, [[spoiler:specifically the ancient Mayans leaded by Chilam Balam through the wormhole created in the past by the present CERN.]]
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*''Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy'' by Creator/CSLewis. ''Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries'': The Ultras vary from human-seeming to animated works of art; the Skyjacks are permanently adapted for life in space; the Stoners are heavily augmented humans who go so far as swapping sexes and appearances the way most people choose hairstyles -- Zebra from ''Chasm City'' has horselike legs, zebra stripe skin pigmentation, a mohawk that runs all the way down her spine, horselike ''eyes'', and [[GenderBender hasn't always been female]] (not that any of that gives the hero a moment's pause before bedding her).
* Several ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' novels have the crew meeting "aliens" who turn out to be heavily modified humans.
* In''That Hideous Strength'', ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'', it becomes apparent that the Moon became as desolate as it is because the {{Lunarians}} tried to destroy their bodies and become pure minds. The mad attempt destroyed their civilization and the few not to attempt bodiless immortality have been struggling to survive on the dark side of the Moon. It turns out that the goal of the earthly N.I.C.E. is to repeat the process on Earth with some help from [[OurDemonsAreDifferent the Macrobes]] to ensure no savages survive blemish their untainted universe.
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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Several ExpandedUniverse novels have the crew meeting "aliens" who turn out to be heavily modified humans.
* In "Zima Blue" by Creator/AlastairReynolds, an artist who appears to be a transhuman turns out to be [[spoiler:a pool-cleaning robot who developed sentience and modified itself repeatedly over the centuries]].
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** In Series 7, TheMaster’s minions the Toclafane, are cheerful psychopaths who look like flying silver basketballs. [[spoiler:These balls contain [[BrainInAJar human heads]], revealing their true nature as refugees from a decayed far future]].
** There are Daleks partially built from human DNA in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways]]" as well as a human being converted into a human-Dalek hybrid in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan Daleks in Manhattan]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Evolution of the Daleks]]".
** There are Daleks partially built from human DNA in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways]]" as well as a human being converted into a human-Dalek hybrid in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan Daleks in Manhattan]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Evolution of the Daleks]]".
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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E5TheSixthFinger The Sixth Finger]]" follows a working class guy who gets accelerated through EvolutionaryLevels to become a superintelligent creature. TranshumanTreachery follows, partly because he had been kind of a misanthrope to begin with.
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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E5TheSixthFinger The Sixth Finger]]" follows a working class working-class guy who gets accelerated through EvolutionaryLevels to become a superintelligent creature. TranshumanTreachery follows, partly because he had been kind of a misanthrope to begin with.
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* ''Strange Stars'' combines the aesthetics of 70s space opera with modern ideas of transhumanism. Earth has been forgotten and humanity has branched into various 'clades' (races). Most of them are now varying levels of HumanoidAliens, but others may look closer to insects or crustaceans.
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* ''Strange Stars'' ''TabletopGame/StrangeStars'' combines the aesthetics of 70s space opera 1970s SpaceOpera with modern ideas of transhumanism. Earth has been forgotten and humanity has branched into various 'clades' (races). Most of them are now varying levels of HumanoidAliens, but others may look closer to insects or crustaceans.
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* ''VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance'' reveals that [[spoiler: [[MechanisticAlienCulture the Starmen]] were once the denizens of Mars and were leading a promising society, but after losing a war against [[GalacticConqueror Giegue]], they were offered by him to have their PSI powers enhanced in exchange for his loyalty. This lead to the creation of the cybernetic aliens that we know today.]]
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* ''VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance'' reveals that [[spoiler: [[MechanisticAlienCulture [[spoiler:[[MechanisticAlienCulture the Starmen]] were once the denizens of Mars and were leading a promising society, but after losing a war against [[GalacticConqueror Giegue]], they were offered by him to have their PSI powers enhanced in exchange for his loyalty. This lead to the creation of the cybernetic aliens that we know today.]] today]].
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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': [[spoiler:The Reapers]], although [[spoiler:they're more along the lines of Trans''alien'' Aliens. The Human Reaper encountered in the second game counts, though, as it's "constructed" from harvested humans.]]
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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': [[spoiler:The Reapers]], although [[spoiler:they're more along the lines of Trans''alien'' Aliens. The Human Reaper encountered in [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 the second game game]] counts, though, as it's "constructed" from harvested humans.]]humans]].
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* ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'': The Eebs are revealed to have evolved from a tribe of primordial humans who developed telekinesis and then used their powers to leave the planet when they got tired of the non-TK humans. Their short, stocky bodies are a result of their new homeworld's higher gravity and the green skin was caused by something in the atmosphere, but no explanation is given for the antennae. [[spoiler: And they can still cross-breed.]]
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* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': The Cetagandans are attempting to evolve themselves into an example of this trope. Miles notes that they do not yet consider the process complete, and do not know exactly what they will have become when it is finished.
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Compare with NotEvenHuman; in this case, they are worse because they are. For populations of humans that moved to space and ''stayed'' human, see TransplantedHumans. Compare/contrast with HumanAllAlong and HumanSubspecies. Not to be confused with {{Ultraterrestrials}}. See also NoTranshumanismAllowed and {{Transhuman}}. Can be used as a [[JustifiedTrope justification]] for HumanoidAlien or RubberForeheadAlien if time travel is involved.
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* ''VideoGame/PhoenotopiaAwakening'': [[spoiler:The Stellanites are revealed to be a quarter of the human population who have departed Earth to the Milky Way Galaxy, under their mistaken belief that the former is beyond recovery and wanted to find a new planet to live in. Their blue skin and pointy ears are the result of modifying their genes to live longer lives, comparable to elves.]]
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* ''VideoGame/PhoenotopiaAwakening'': [[spoiler:The Stellanites are revealed to be a quarter of the human population who have departed Earth to the Milky Way Galaxy, under their mistaken belief that the former is beyond recovery and wanted to find a new planet to live in. recovery. Their blue skin and pointy ears are the result of modifying their genes to adapt to the harsh conditions of space, and live much longer lives, lives comparable to elves.]]
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': The season 4 finale, "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E22TheDeconstructionOfFallingStars The Deconstruction of Falling Stars]]", has a human from a million years into the future revealed as a transhuman EnergyBeing that uses an encounter suit much like the Vorlons earlier in the series did.
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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': The season 4 finale, "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E22TheDeconstructionOfFallingStars The Deconstruction of Falling Stars]]", has a human from a million years into the future revealed as a transhuman EnergyBeing {{Energy Being|s}} that uses an encounter suit much like the Vorlons earlier in the series did.
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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': One episode has a group of college students board an ancient alien starship. When they land, they find a skeleton of a human-like figure with bat wings, which they assume to belong to the aliens who sent the ship. Then it is revealed that the planet is [[PlanetOfTheApesEnding actually Earth in the future]], meaning the skeleton belongs to a human who has either evolved or has been genetically modified to have wings.
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* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': One episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S4E23TheOriginOfSpecies The Origin of Species]]" has a group of college students board an ancient alien starship. When they land, they find a skeleton of a human-like figure with bat wings, which they assume to belong to the aliens who sent the ship. Then it is revealed that the planet is [[PlanetOfTheApesEnding [[EarthAllAlong actually Earth in the future]], meaning the skeleton belongs to a human who has either evolved or has been genetically modified to have wings.
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** Series-wide, the human members of [[YouWillBeAssimilated the Borg]] can qualify. The vast majority of Borg drones seen seem to be human, including the various Borg Queens. That said, this is a series famous for its HumanAliens, so they could just be aliens that look a lot like humans. An Expanded Universe novel reveals that the first Borg ''were'' human, merged with a StarfishAlien.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' features several incorporeal aliens who evolved past a humanoid form, including the Organians, Zetarians and Thasians. The Preservers have also evolved past the need of a body but resemble oversized brains, and several other humanoid species have been replaced by their own machines.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' {{invert|edTrope}}s this trope when it's revealed that all humanoid species, including humans themselves, are descended from [[spoiler:ancient humanoids that thrived billions of years ago. The first humanoids had explored the galaxy and found [[AbsentAliens no beings like themselves]].]]
** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' In an episode where Tom Paris breaks the warp threshold and has his [[spoiler:natural evolution accelerated to the point where he mutates into a primitive salamander-like creature along with the captain]].
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': "Terra Nova" has the Enterprise encounter a colony wiped out by radiation, and an [[AliensSpeakingEnglish English-speaking]] primitive group of underground-dwelling bumpy-skinned humanoids, all under a certain age. Guess what, they're [[spoiler:the surviving kids and their descendants, having been hidden away in a shelter when their parents died]]. Why the Enterprise crew don't make the connection sooner is [[IdiotBall just par for the course]] for that series.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' features several incorporeal aliens who evolved past a humanoid form, including the Organians, Zetarians and Thasians. The Preservers have also evolved past the need of a body but resemble oversized brains, and several other humanoid species have been replaced by their own machines.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' {{invert|edTrope}}s this trope when it's revealed that all humanoid species, including humans themselves, are descended from [[spoiler:ancient humanoids that thrived billions of years ago. The first humanoids had explored the galaxy and found [[AbsentAliens no beings like themselves]].]]
** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' In an episode where Tom Paris breaks the warp threshold and has his [[spoiler:natural evolution accelerated to the point where he mutates into a primitive salamander-like creature along with the captain]].
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': "Terra Nova" has the Enterprise encounter a colony wiped out by radiation, and an [[AliensSpeakingEnglish English-speaking]] primitive group of underground-dwelling bumpy-skinned humanoids, all under a certain age. Guess what, they're [[spoiler:the surviving kids and their descendants, having been hidden away in a shelter when their parents died]]. Why the Enterprise crew don't make the connection sooner is [[IdiotBall just par for the course]] for that series.
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** Series-wide, the human members of [[YouWillBeAssimilated [[TheAssimilator the Borg]] can qualify. The vast majority of Borg drones seen seem to be human, including the various [[HiveQueen Borg Queens.Queens]]. That said, this is a series famous for its HumanAliens, so they could just be aliens that look a lot like humans. An Expanded Universe novel reveals The ''Literature/StarTrekDestiny'' novels reveal that the first Borg ''were'' human, merged with a StarfishAlien.
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** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' features several [[EnergyBeings incorporealaliens aliens]] who [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence evolved past a humanoid form, form]], including the Organians, Zetarians and Thasians. The Preservers have also evolved past the need of a body but resemble oversized brains, and several other humanoid species have been replaced by their own machines.
** The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E18TheChase The Chase]]" {{invert|edTrope}}s this trope when it's revealed that all humanoid species, including humans themselves, are descended from [[spoiler:ancient humanoids that thrived billions of years ago. The first humanoids had explored the galaxy and found [[AbsentAliens no beings likethemselves]].]]
themselves]]]].
**''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In an episode where "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E15Threshold Threshold]]", Tom Paris breaks the warp threshold and has [[spoiler:has his [[spoiler:natural natural evolution accelerated to the point where that he mutates into a primitive salamander-like creature along with the captain]].
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'':"Terra Nova" "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E06TerraNova Terra Nova]]" has the Enterprise encounter a colony wiped out by radiation, and an [[AliensSpeakingEnglish English-speaking]] primitive group of underground-dwelling bumpy-skinned humanoids, all under a certain age. Guess what, they're [[spoiler:the surviving kids and their descendants, having been hidden away in a shelter when their parents died]]. Why the Enterprise crew don't make the connection sooner is [[IdiotBall just par for the course]] for that the series.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' features several [[EnergyBeings incorporeal
** The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E18TheChase The Chase]]" {{invert|edTrope}}s this trope when it's revealed that all humanoid species, including humans themselves, are descended from [[spoiler:ancient humanoids that thrived billions of years ago. The first humanoids had explored the galaxy and found [[AbsentAliens no beings like
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* ''Literature/ManAfterMan'': Much of the book is about various genetically engineered species of humans, starting with future descendants of modern humanity who become entirely dependent on technological cradles to survive and later replace these with genetically engineered bodies unique to each individual and, after the collapse of their society, to multiple kinds of [[FormerlySapientSpecies non-sapient human species]] created to replace long-extinct mammalian megafauna. The book ends with an alien species coming to earth and destroying all life on land, who themselves are the evolved remnants of the humans who went into space at the beginning of the book.
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* ''Literature/ManAfterMan'': ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'': Much of the book is about various genetically engineered species of humans, starting with future descendants of modern humanity who become entirely dependent on technological cradles to survive and later replace these with genetically engineered bodies unique to each individual and, after the collapse of their society, to multiple kinds of [[FormerlySapientSpecies non-sapient human species]] created to replace long-extinct mammalian megafauna. The book ends with an alien species coming to earth and destroying all life on land, who themselves are the evolved remnants of the humans who went into space at the beginning of the book.
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** There are a few less obvious examples. For example, Dylan's enhanced strength ans a few other traits are due to his mother being a high gravity worlder. Becca has a number of enhancements such as enhanced reaction time that make her a better spacer (and were reverse-engineered by the time-traveling creator of the Nietzcheans). The crew had only one un-altered human (until they started to get a bigger crew in later seasons), and it was mentioned a few times that more than 80% of humans have some kind of engineered genetics.
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** There are a few less obvious examples. For example, Dylan's enhanced strength ans and a few other traits are due to his mother being a high gravity worlder. Becca has a number of enhancements such as enhanced reaction time that make her a better spacer (and were reverse-engineered by the time-traveling creator of the Nietzcheans). The crew had only one un-altered human (until they started to get a bigger crew in later seasons), and it was mentioned a few times that more than 80% of humans have some kind of engineered genetics.
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* ''Strange Stars'' combines the aesthetics of 70s space opera with modern ideas of transhumanism. Earth has been forgotten and humanity has branched into various 'clades' (races). Most of them are now varying levels of HumanoidAliens, but others may look closer to insects or crustaceans.
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-->-- '''A Cyberman''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Tenth Planet"
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* ''Literature/ParadoxUniverse'': The Pelted are multiple races of genetically engineered [[BeastMan human-animal hybrids]] created as part of "Project Homefront".
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* ''Literature/ParadoxUniverse'': ''Literature/{{Paradox}}'': The Pelted are multiple races of [[ArtificialAnimalPeople genetically engineered [[BeastMan human-animal hybrids]] created as part of "Project Homefront".
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* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' by Creator/HGwells is an early example with the Morlocks and Eloi as future humans (the result of respectively factory workers and privileged elites developing into separate species) and neither presenting that pleasant an outcome for the human race. The Morlocks are subterranean monsters with the intellect to operate machinery, the Eloi are beautiful creatures with low intelligence who live pampered lives. The latter is maintained by the former for food.
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* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' by Creator/HGwells is an early example with the Morlocks and Eloi as future humans (the result of respectively factory workers and privileged elites developing into separate species) and neither presenting that pleasant an outcome for the human race. The Morlocks are subterranean monsters with the intellect to operate machinery, the Eloi are beautiful creatures with low intelligence who live pampered lives. The latter is maintained by the former for food.
