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* "Solar(i)an" (from latin ''Sol'', "Sun") is used less frequently, but to exactly the same effect.
* An older established term was "Earthling" - something of a [[Discredited Trope]], as nowadays this brings to mind "naive children under the bootheels of little green martians", rather than "badasses". [[Puny Earthlings|It also immediately conjures up the word "Puny".]]
** ''[[Star Control]]'' used the term "Earthling Cruiser" to describe our Alliance starship in the first game. The subsequent game([[Canon
* It's worth bearing in mind that there are several technical words for "beings closely taxonomically related to humans". "Hominid" used to mean "humans and their extinct relatives", but according to [[The Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:Hominid|the modern term for this is "hominan"]]. [[The More You Know]]...
** The term "humanoid" refers to anything relatively human-shaped (bipedal, upright, two arms, one head), including [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]], [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]], and denizens of the [[Uncanny Valley]]. Sentience and genetic relation to humankind are not required.
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* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', most species have a name for the species in Federation Standard (English), which is usually derived from the Federation Standard name for their planet. (Bajorans from Bajor, Vulcans from Vulcan; in an aversion, Klingons from Qo'noS (prnonounced Kronos)). However, they also usually have a name for people from any particular planet. So a member of any species that was raised on Earth would be an Earthling, or on Bajor would be a Bajoran & so on. However, all species have at least one language of their own, which has a different name for their species that may have nothing to do with their name for their home planet. For example, in Imperial Standard Klingon (The Klingon language used by the Imperial Council, that can be learned at the Klingon Language Institute in [[Real Life]])Klingon = tlhIngan. But their homeworld is called Qo'noS. Presumably the English word 'Klingon' was just a bad Human pronunciation at first.
** Names for the earlier races seem to be names given to them by Humans, rather than what they actually call each other. The two Romulan home worlds are Romulus and Remus, then there's the afore-mentioned Vulcan and Kronos...whoever was naming these races seemed to have a yen for Greco-Roman mythology.
** On at least one occasion, a Klingon has been heard referring to his homeworld as Kling. Of course, Star Trek suffers massively from [[Canon
** Also in ''Star Trek'', one (nonhumanoid—indeed, ''inorganic'') alien race referred to our intrepid crew as "ugly bags of mostly water." The science officer points out that this is technically accurate.
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== Web Original ==
* While being human in the modern sense is now very rare in ''[[
* Nepleslians of ''[[Star Army]]'' are displaced humans who were taken from the [[Earth-That-Was]] to [[A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away|a distant sector of space]]. Naturally, they're the setting's main source of [[Badass Normal|Badass Normals]].
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