But 'Mandalorian' should be capitalized. They're not a different species, most of them are human. They're a culture/nationality/ethnicity/religious cult.

The same may go for Klingon (though I'm not as familiar with Star Trek, so I can't be sure). Maybe it shouldn't be capitalized when you're referring to the species, but it may be that the word is typically used to refer to the culture/ethnicity, rather than the species.

Star Trek governing bodies tend to include the founding species in their name so citizens of "The Klingon Empire" can be called "Klingons" regardless of whether or not they're actually of the klingon species. The same doesn't apply to any species like humans who are citizens of The Federation, unless you're talking about the Mirror-universe Terrans who are citizens of The Terran Empire.

If history truly rhymes, the aliens are going to be named "hello" or whatever the humans hear them saying often, unless the aliens can visibly destroy us in a fight.

I don't get the confusion. It's just a sign of respect, an acknowledgement that these other alien species are truly our equals. Or at the very least, equal enough that it would be disrespectful to refer to them the same way we do animals.

If only it had no stupid third party launcher, I’d love to play Mass Effect again. Great series.

I do have it on 360, I could always play on that I suppose.

Foreign cultures get capitalized names, animals do not.

Those people are Klingons, their species is klingon. They come from Qo’nos.

Nitpick: it's absolutely correct to capitalise Mandalorian as it's a territory/culture with a proper noun.

The universal translator is doing its best not to call everyone Us from the planet Home.

Or Dirt.

In real life they would probably be named after the solar system or general galactic region rather than home planet too, so hell yeah!

Aren't humans commonly referred to as Earthlings? I do respect the point you are making, especially with reference to the Star Trek species.

It's gonna be at least 20 years before another studio attempts a choice-based narrative trilogy with save imports and it's probably going to suck.

What about in German?

checks definition of a proper noun

A proper noun is a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing.

😯 Tumblr user is right!

::: spoiler also kind of embarrassed that I had to Google the definition to double check, because: I've been doing a course on "Foundations of Writing", inspired by the historical school syllabus The Trivium once used across Europe.

It explores the rigid - but generally unwritten - rules of how the English language works, so among them was that definition of when to capitalise words. I found that particular fascinating because when I learned it at school it was just explained as "names of places people or things" which isn't significantly more simple than the afforementioned, correct definition.

So by that modern-school rule, one would perhaps assume the name of species names (or nationality names) falls under the capitalisation rule - but alas, no! :::

I think it's pretty obvious that humanity is a culture, and it's not a very good one. I'm otherkin; I don't identify as human. I wouldn't want to be a human, because humanity as a construct is used to justify so much evil. When people wanted to do the slave trade or the holocaust or colonisation, they did it by stripping humanity from these groups. Because human culture says it's acceptable to treat nonhumans this way. And that's why I want nothing to do with such a toxic construct. I'm not interested in appealing to colonial values.