Personal Adrastos on 10 Jul 2007 07:45 pm
Equal Opportunity
I was cruising with FX and the brothers last night, mind racing, Reliant K booming on the sound system, through a bit of a thunderstorm. It was quiet–no rain, nothing, just the occasional flash and boom like some kind of Shutter of God’s Camera (They say you cannot observe something without changing it)–and FX makes like he’s shouting to the heavens, says, “I’m here! Come to me!”. Now I tell him it’s a bad idea, because we’ve learned from every movie ever that Aliens will destroy all of humanity on a whim.
So then I get to thinking.
Why is it that aliens always seem to pick on humans for some incidental reason? Let me give a few examples. In Stargate (and its derivative series), Humans got picked on by the Goaul’d because humans are easy to regenerate. In the 4400, humans got picked on because the aliens… well, just because. Y’know, they had all this technology for making people super-powered and crazy, and it would be a crying shame to let that go to waste.
So here’s my thought: What about other alien species? Why us and not them? Because of our simple bodies? Just because we’re easy to modify or regenerate doesn’t mean we don’t have feelings!
I propose anti-discrimination abduction legislation. I think that species should be abducted on a merit scenario, not on incidental things like the color of our skin, the shape of our eyes, our amazing livers, our prehensile tails, etc.
Actually now that I reflect on it, there is one show that had a merit-based abduction–or at least visitation. The Vulcans first appeared on Earth in Star Trek because Zefram Cochrane’s Phoenix hit warp speed and they saw it. In that show we earned our visitation. That’s pretty cool.
Other alien species should totally learn from their example.
… what, you don’t have a prehensile tail? Freak.
