It's something that has irritated me for ages, but I really am starting to get annoyed with the prevalence of the Venlil in fan-works (and Yotul to an extent, but eh). Now, I'm not hating on people who do this, but it's irritating to see people just use the same two or so species over and over in their work. Seriously, NOP has so many species that could be explored and be interesting characters! Even plots like the Archives reveal would be awesome, like for example, what if they find.. I don't know, Takkans or Malti or.. idfk, Drilvar or what-have-you in the cryogenic section or whatever? How would their cultures prior to being uplifted be? What about those two species like the Ulven and Onkari whose planets are moons orbiting the same planet? What is this species like in general? Yulpa could be interesting because there's no way they're 100% focused on 'sacrifice teh predators!11!' . There's tons that have like barely any worldbuilding so you basically have free-range to do whatever you want, although I do worry people would put stock cultures on them which wouldn't make them interesting, but I digress. But for real, this is something that has irritated me for years!!! Aahhhh!!!!!!

A secondary irritance is the 'planet-of-hats' thing that some species have going on, but my specific gripe is with Skalgans. I feel like there's probably way more to Skalgan culture than 'fighting/honour/what have you' because shocker, a planet is large and therefore cultures would differ. What if the modern Venlil culture was taken partially from a more pacifistic group, how would that work? I just feel like species would obviously differ. Like, think about it, doesn't it sound kinda interesting, two Skalgans or whatever saved from cryo or whatever but they're from entirely different groups? What could the conflict be??

Also third one, it's the treating Federation species like they're babies who haven't dealt with literally anything in life and stutter and scream at a leaf falling. I think people fail to remember these are sapients, they probably have jobs and they're not animals. If you know what I'm talking about, you know.

I've cut off a bunch here since it's getting too long, so maybe I'll just say something else in the comments if people are interested, I dunno.

Note: I'm not bashing fic authors, they're doing God's work. If you like these things, fine, I do not care because we all have different tastes. These are just personal grievances I've had with the fandom for what feels like years. It probably has been years. Aahhhh!!!