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Re: Digest Number 1158

dragonhavn
<<<<Why should the Aliens need motivation.The shark did,nt in
Jaws,nor did the Bomb in Darkstar,the Lorry in Duel.Its simply what they do...There is something more terrifying about a motiveless foe.And being mysterious creates more suspense.
Since the end of the cold war the West has no worthwhile enemies.By this I mean enemies who will have enough technological and alter idelogical clout to overrun it.
So why not an enemy to fight that restores meaning and purpose and gives us a reason to live.

Mark UK >>>>

Ouch! Definite idea to consider. Although this means that as SHADO moves forward (which it didn't get a chance to do in the series) the aliens would get, if anything, more and more dangerous. (ack! reporter stumbles onto the real explanation and headline: Aliens in the Mind, There Still Aren't Any Weapons of Mass Destruction ------ *mad giggles* sorry about that.)

foggy as my memory is, ---- hmmm --- here i was about to comment that i didn't see a lot of evidence for this explanation in UFO, and what happens, i recall disintegrating UFOs and pilots/crewmembers. since a captured vehicle or alien would start the people around it collectively questioning why and what and how --------- the constructs come apart under the strain? now that would be a really nasty series finale with Dr. Jackson's "soothing" tones commenting on the peculiarities of the human psyche that it would "need" and therefore "construct" such a bizarre methodology of keeping the tension up. *shudder*.

Mark, this is a really nasty idea. I love it.


<<<<If the aliens are a dying race....and lets assume that there are no Mr.
Clone machines sitting on the aliens kitchen counters, perhaps the aliens
are coming to Earth because they don't KNOW how to clone anymore. The
skill has been lost through war, or disease. All the.....(Here it comes)
Clone Masters are gone and in desperation, the survivors come to Earth to
steal instead of making their new parts.>>>>

*snerk* ok, i sense a xover here. LOL. Argh.

<<<<If all the Washing Machine repairmen (and Women) vanished one day I'd have
a hard time fixing my machine. I'd probably have to buy a new one....or
steal one on a nearby planet! <heh heh heh> >>>>>

this is probably why i married a "mr. fixit", that way i don't have to go alll the way to another planet to steal a new washer <g> or a used one. LOL

on the matter of "how to get the organs home fresh and useable", i always just figured they had the technology to overcome the problems Earth had transporting organs for transplant. after all, they seem to have licked the extended time in space problem to get from point a to point b, keeping transplantable organs healthy once removed from the donor should be child's play for these people.

on the matter of cloning technology, maybe they came to the conclusion that some other alien/future cultures have: the law of diminishing returns. there is a popular sci-fi theory that cloning can only go so far, evenutally the genetic matter gives out. what if all that's left of the civilization are dying clones? their original genetic matrix is giving out and the only answer is new material (organs). They have the technology to transport and install new organs, but have perhaps grown leary of the idea of cloning, even from a new genetic matrix. Or, as the Clone Master comment said, they've lost the knowledge of how to start a new batch of clones. maybe there are machines that remove and insert new organs. there is very little to go on in the way of "alien civilization" knowledge in UFO. the aliens remain remote, removed, unknowable. and durned spooky. that they want to remove SHADO as a bar to their successful raids on Earth is a given.

factions sound plausible from a purely Earth standpoint. after all, we have nothing but factions. the concept of a united planetary civilization is a pipe dream in our sci-fi, UFO included. a possibly small but powerful faction raiding earth might explain why there were so few UFOs in each attack. if you're building ships as fast as you can, but on the QT, it could very well explain the dearth of waves and waves of ships coming in. everything seems to be on the QT with the aliens.

*thoughtful look* maybe it's not a dying civilization, but a controling faction trying desperately to stay in control, not willing to let go in spite of the price paid to continue. perhaps the single alien trying to contact SHADO was an infiltrator, someone who thought they could do some good, could strike back, yet was held by the understanding that the majority of his people who were not responsible for this situation, would suffer both at the hands of SHADO and of the "nomenclatura", for want of a better designation. i'd always thought his calm acceptance of his death was a bit much, but that might make sense of it. his own people killing him makes him a martyr. <g> (and, once again, my extremely loose grasp of the relation of ep titles to eps keeps me from identifying the actual episode *chuckle*)

ok, i've rambled on at much greater length than intended

ryuu

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Re: Digest Number 1158

anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>
--- Someone wrote:
> Why should the Aliens need motivation. The shark did'nt in
> Jaws, ...

The shark did have motivation. It needed to eat.