Duggy  wrote:
> Doug Freyburger  wrote:
>
> > There was a B5 episode featuring a "Shadow Warrior" that got
> > on a sublight ship and hijacked it to head toward Zahahdoom.
> > It was a species never seen again and could have been
> > modelled on Predator.
>
> A alien hunter who only fights dangerous enemies and uses a cloaking
> device...
> A alien thing that feeds on sleeping crewmembers by almost becoming
> part of them, and is shadowy and not completely real.
>
> No, sorry, I can't see it at all.

I thought the appearance not the behavior was modelled.
Then again the appearance of the Predator was certainly
not original to that movie either.

But the behavior is a clever twist on Alien when phrased
that way.

I've seen a preview of the next ST movie.  The preview
hasn't changed in months - It shows the construction
crew making the Enterprise NCC-1701.  It would be
about pre-Pike cruises.  Whether they chose to go with
Robert April remains to be seen.

Since JMS has stated he's not involved in the script
there's the worry that the new ST effort will not have
learned the VOY/ENT lesson that staff writers who are
not ST/SF fans churning out script after script do nothing
but head the franchise into the toilet.  JMS involvement
would sure have handled that problem.

It's part of why I look forward to any Lensmen effort so
much.  JMS is be able to produce scripts that are much
better than the original EE Doc Smith material without
losing the original story line of protracted war against
one side that uses hierarchical structure throughout its
society against a society that only uses it in its military
among other themes.
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