I don't blame people, either, but: there's so much interesting science fiction to delve into!
I don't have an actual reason for this, but I always assumed the aliens spent at least a few generations on the ship - whether or not they had FTL travel. It's just that I like to imagine what effect this had on their society and mores, and how you could still see the results today. (I... might have a story touching on that a bit in the pipeline. ;-) ) This makes more sense than the alternative, because this'd mean that the aliens would have the opportunity to lose the knowhow to build/run interstellar spaceships, and also install in a bunch of them the fear of open spaces (a phobia of rooflessness – what's keeping the atmosphere in???) that'd lead to them voluntarily settling beneath the ground. Maybe with the generation ship burying itself so it becomes Dixing? I have Ideas, and a story that touches upon it that will enter the pipeline at some point.
(Huh! I just ... am not into reincarnation as a concept or trope. Original Kunlun does look exactly like Zhao Yunlan, but to me this is more trivia than anything interesting. A reincarnation is not the original, so a lot of the reasons people cite for liking reincarnation stuff – "second chances" etc – seem to me like they don't apply, as it's at best getting a replacement goldfish of a character. *g*)
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This makes more sense than the alternative, because this'd mean that the aliens would have the opportunity to lose the knowhow to build/run interstellar spaceships, and also install in a bunch of them the fear of open spaces (a phobia of rooflessness – what's keeping the atmosphere in???) that'd lead to them voluntarily settling beneath the ground. Maybe with the generation ship burying itself so it becomes Dixing? I have Ideas, and a story that touches upon it that will enter the pipeline at some point.
(Huh! I just ... am not into reincarnation as a concept or trope. Original Kunlun does look exactly like Zhao Yunlan, but to me this is more trivia than anything interesting. A reincarnation is not the original, so a lot of the reasons people cite for liking reincarnation stuff – "second chances" etc – seem to me like they don't apply, as it's at best getting a replacement goldfish of a character. *g*)