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Another good review.
And thanks Chuck for the idea of replacing Phlox with Dr. Zoidberg - who might actually be more competent!

About the "eat like you mate" thing; there is actually a scene in Luis Buñuel's Le fantôme de la liberté / The Phantom of Liberty, where people sit on toilet seats around a table and then discretely retire one at a time to a small closet to eat their dinners. Awesome movie overall, no bullshit with plot or other charmingly bourgeois things.

When Chuck was talking about how sci-fi monsters don't need to obey any silly conservation of mass laws all I could think of was xenomorphs.

OsirisLord wrote:When Chuck was talking about how sci-fi monsters don't need to obey any silly conservation of mass laws all I could think of was xenomorphs.

Well with the Xenos that does not have to be the case for the first two movies at least. Just say that offscreen the chestbursters gorged themselves silly on Nostromo's/Colony supplies of Space Wheaties and their you go.

Zor

Wages of Fear? I think that all knowledge of post 1950s pop culture was lost in the Eugenics Wars and WW3 in the Star Trek verse.

Zor wrote:Well with the Xenos that does not have to be the case for the first two movies at least. Just say that offscreen the chestbursters gorged themselves silly on Nostromo's/Colony supplies of Space Wheaties and their you go. Zor

The Alien book had a remark to this effect. They looked at the Nostromo's storageroom, and the food containers were open and empty. None of the food containers had been opened normally.

Coalition wrote:

Zor wrote:Well with the Xenos that does not have to be the case for the first two movies at least. Just say that offscreen the chestbursters gorged themselves silly on Nostromo's/Colony supplies of Space Wheaties and their you go. Zor

The Alien book had a remark to this effect. They looked at the Nostromo's storageroom, and the food containers were open and empty. None of the food containers had been opened normally.

It specifically stated that the creature had torn open canned rations and eaten the contents, and the crew was rather unhappy to be facing something with that kind of strength.

In regards to the aliens who get offended by public eating, that just seems weird to me. I can't remember another species in star trek that has the same hangups, which means in interaction with other species it would make more sense for them to either grow a strong stomach to this sort of thing or simply say "If you would be so good, we would prefer it if you did not eat in front of us".

Zor

Reed once more shows how he is the only saving grace of that show....too bad he is not enough.

Zor wrote:In regards to the aliens who get offended by public eating, that just seems weird to me. I can't remember another species in star trek that has the same hangups, which means in interaction with other species it would make more sense for them to either grow a strong stomach to this sort of thing or simply say "If you would be so good, we would prefer it if you did not eat in front of us".

Zor

they obviously didn't evolve from a communal species. Tasmanian Devils eat solitary, only so the others don't steal their food. so maybe that's what their ancestors were like.

aussiemuscle308 wrote:

Zor wrote:In regards to the aliens who get offended by public eating, that just seems weird to me. I can't remember another species in star trek that has the same hangups, which means in interaction with other species it would make more sense for them to either grow a strong stomach to this sort of thing or simply say "If you would be so good, we would prefer it if you did not eat in front of us".

Zor

they obviously didn't evolve from a communal species. Tasmanian Devils eat solitary, only so the others don't steal their food. so maybe that's what their ancestors were like.

A Non Social species would never have developed civilization, let alone space travel.

Zor