The film, certainly. I don't recall the book mentioning the nature of the adversary though. Not that I remember much of the book beyond the parody of every boot-camp movie ever.
On which subject, "Aliens" is on the gogglebox.
the cover has bugs all over it....
The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one “The Third Space War” (or the “Fourth”), or whether “The First Interstellar War” fits it
better. We just call it “The Bug War” if we call it anything, which we usually don’t, and in any case the historians date the beginning of “war” after the
time I joined my first outfit and ship. Everything up to then and still later were “incidents,” “patrols,” or “police actions.” However, you are just as dead
if you buy a farm in an “incident” as you are if you buy it in a declared war.
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
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Dr. Prilicla from the Sector General series is an acceptable answer. That is the 5th answer so the Chalice is now yours ffutures.
It may need to be seriously decontaminated though. Several Pygmy Marmosets had to be brought in to eat all the locusts. Said mini monkeys did not take up residence in the Chalice as they were removed after ingesting the many fast breeding insects. Unfortunately this ingesting did leave them with a rather bad case of "upset stomach". It cost some extra credits to get Fedoox to take on the shipping assignment given the Chalice's rather odorous nature at the moment.
Humor is the second most subjective thing on the planet
Brevity is the soul of wit and vulgarity is wit's downfall
It cost some extra credits to get Fedoox to take on the shipping assignment given the Chalice's rather odorous nature at the moment.
To misquote ... was it the tagline for Alien? - "In space, nobody can smell your farts!"
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Shooting aliens for fun and ... well, more fun.
"Speaking as an outsider, what do you think of the human race?" (John Cooper Clark - "I married a Space Alien")
OK, in one of my previous questions I asked for shape-changing aliens. This time I'm looking for five examples of HUMANS imitating ALIENS on the alien's worlds, ships, space stations or whatever - by shape changing, makeup, plastic surgery, drugs or whatever else might be needed to convince the aliens that they are part of their own race.
No two from the same source (book series, TV show, whatever) or from the same author in the case of books. And just to state the obvious, I'm NOT looking for examples of humans trying to fool other humans, e.g. by pretending to be Martians or other aliens.
I'll grab it before anyone else comes up with a Star Trek answer: in the Star Trek: TNG episode "First Contact", Riker is surgically altered (i.e. given little forehead lumps) so he can observe the pre-warp civilisation on Malcor III.
I'll grab it before anyone else comes up with a Star Trek answer: in the Star Trek: TNG episode "First Contact", Riker is surgically altered (i.e. given little forehead lumps) so he can observe the pre-warp civilisation on Malcor III.
Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Visions short story titled The Repairman.
took me a while to find this , i remember the story but not where i had read it...
Hyperspace Beacon stops working and our guy gets sent to fix it. Finds a reptilian race has built a pyramid around the beacon and worship it. Some priest broke the thing hence the beacon not working. Repairmans problem is this priest started a war when the holy water stopped flowing.
Repairman has to learn the language and disguise himself as a reptile to gain access to the pyramid, get inside and fix it...
Arthur: OK. Leave this to me. I'm British. I know how to queue.
OR i could go with
Arthur Dent: I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
or simply
42
Harry Harrison, Stainless Steel Visions short story titled The Repairman.
took me a while to find this , i remember the story but not where i had read it...
Hyperspace Beacon stops working and our guy gets sent to fix it. Finds a reptilian race has built a pyramid around the beacon and worship it. Some priest broke the thing hence the beacon not working. Repairmans problem is this priest started a war when the holy water stopped flowing.
Repairman has to learn the language and disguise himself as a reptile to gain access to the pyramid, get inside and fix it...
Another good example, and have a meaningless bonus point for reminding me of a story that made me laugh.
I'm really surprised that nobody has mentioned some fairly obvious ones from books and TV - I can think of at least three others that haven't been mentioned yet.
In "Doctor Who and the Daleks", Ian Chesterton disguises himself as a Dalek. The Doctor and his companions manage to overpower one, open it up, and scoop out the creature inside; Chesterton is able to climb into the casing and, at least to a degree, drive it around.
In "Doctor Who and the Daleks", Ian Chesterton disguises himself as a Dalek. The Doctor and his companions manage to overpower one, open it up, and scoop out the creature inside; Chesterton is able to climb into the casing and, at least to a degree, drive it around.
That was indeed one of the ones I was particularly thinking of - have an MBP!
One to go! And alas, no more Doctor Who or related fandoms.
