Not even theoretically feasible...

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You think this question needs an answer? Really?

Ok, I'm going to introduce you to a concept in storytelling. It's called fiction.

Or more specifically a concept some of us like to refer to as unobtanium. Star Trek has dilithium. The Marvel universe has meta-humans. Star Wars has the force... among other things. The Matrix has A.I. Lord of the Rings has, well, rings. Planet of the Apes has this genetically engineered cure that enhances apes and negatively affects humans.

Unobtanium is the element or elements of a created universe that we know are impossible in our current reality yet we allow for as long as the story follows the rules it establishes. It allows us to explore aspects and situations that would otherwise be impossible, and the best of these stories allow us to explore aspects of ourselves.

If your requirement for a entertainment is that all aspects of it are plausible and realistic, you should restrict yourself to the Discovery and History channels. However you will be missing out on a long list of extremely great films, television, video games, and stories in general.

Parrots can speak, and are highly intelligent (see African Grey). But Planet of the Parrots wouldn't have been as scary.

Immune systems are highly species specific- HIV for example had to undergo a mutation to change it's host range from primate to human- and could not effect monkeys anymore, purely a human virus. This is the same for almost any virus-it can be incredibly specific to a species and not be able to infect another host (called tropism). Ducks for example carry the flu but don't get sick from it. Almost any manner of immunological difference or physiological difference-fur, blood pressure, heart rate, tissue types, lifestyle etc could account for major differences in viral pathogenicity. There are even viruses that effect kids but not adults, affect immunocompromised but not healthy, and viruses that effect different people in different ways.

Neither are:

1) Warp Drive

2) Photon Torpedoes

3) Klingons

4) The Force

5) The Vulcan nerve pinch

6) Martians, Moon Men, Venusians, etc.

7) Hobbits

8) Elves

Do you always watch sci-fi movies and then criticize them because they're sci-fi?

This feels like something said when you judge fiction to always have done it's homework. As in get it's current science/history/etc right.

But of course if this is the kind of prerequisite you have, you can't honestly like a lot of fiction without being hypocritical. Since really the more you expand your horizons, the less dutiful handy work you are going to see.

I personally don't have a judgment against either. It's a choice. Some will do the full research to get every proper detail accurate and others just plain never will care.

Communities left for being too closeminded: Gamefaqs, Home Theater Forum, Toonzone

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