But it shows a problem; in most sci-fi not only are all the aliens 1.8 meters tall with five fingers and a larynx that can mimic human speech, they all come from world's with a 24 hour day.
Yeah! Lamp-shading this trend is one of the ways that Farscape shines.
While Farscape is still frequently guilty of this trope, it's fun that at least the human main character is often scolded by peers for his human-anatomy-centric biases.
The camera thing drives me nuts, because we all know it's generally just going to be what's drives the plot for this story. Which is okay.
But as a privacy nerd, my brain immediately concocts some deeply weird privacy law to explain why main engineering is monitored 24/7 and the front door is somehow not. Then my brain starts trying to come up with the relevant moments in the fictional history why the laws are so broken...