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Which alien (civilization) is the stupidest of all? I think the ID4 aliens are pretty smart and got killed via plot... The Species aliens, whoever they are, are genius sending us genetic data to kill us... The Signs aliens... have to be the dumbest civ ever... attacking a civ on a planet that is 75% poison to yourself and attacking with ground troops... that are naked... and attacking solo. |
Have to agree on the Signs aliens...since they even couldn't figure out how to open a closet door.
Haha, oh god, the Signs aliens.
Fighting naked and bare-handed against something that basically has acid for blood, and can spit acid... and excretes acid from their skin.... and can use guns...
And yeah, the aliens can't even open doors 
That was a terrible movie.
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That wasn't an invasion. That was a bunch of drunken alien fratboys trying to out-macho each other. ("I'll go fight the aliens made of death fluid!" "Oh yeah? *I'll* do it without weapons!" "Oh yeah? Well *I'll* do it without weapons and NAKED!") |
Originally Posted by Akiru_NA
Haha, oh god, the Signs aliens.
Fighting naked and bare-handed against something that basically has acid for blood, and can spit acid... and excretes acid from their skin.... and can use guns... And yeah, the aliens can't even open doors That was a terrible movie. |
And then we just have to assume they were too drunk to figure out a doorknob, and they made the crop circles while staggering around looking for the keys to their saucer.
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Originally Posted by Thug_Two
That wasn't an invasion. That was a bunch of drunken alien fratboys trying to out-macho each other. ("I'll go fight the aliens made of death fluid!" "Oh yeah? *I'll* do it without weapons!" "Oh yeah? Well *I'll* do it without weapons and NAKED!")
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The Borg, although that's really more arrogance and a obsessive desire for efficiency than anything else, and not even entirely misplaced. Still, you'd think after two failed invasions with only a single ship sent each time, they'd learn their lesson and send like 20 cubes next time.
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That was a terrible movie.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
I really liked Signs until I started reading these forums.
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The Martians in War of the Worlds were pretty dumb for not testing air and water first for pathogens.
They're not as dumb as as the aliens in Signs though.
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Trekkie though I be, I agree that the Borg have always been stupid when it came to assimilating Earth. Both times they used just one ship and came within a hair's breadth of succeeding, so why not send more than one ship and guarantee success?
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
The Borg, although that's really more arrogance and a obsessive desire for efficiency than anything else, and not even entirely misplaced. Still, you'd think after two failed invasions with only a single ship sent each time, they'd learn their lesson and send like 20 cubes next time.
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Goodbye, I guess.
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E.T.
Do they not have a freaking 'buddy system'?
Take a freaking head count before you take off for you home world.
Don't they have some kind of alien LoJack system where they could find him, (has it ever been determined if E.T. is male or female?. . .anyway) insdead of him (there I go again) having to build one out of a Speak n Spell?
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Can pretty much agree here, they honestly believed that conditions wouldn't change on the planet over time since they last came...
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Originally Posted by Pouncer
The Martians in War of the Worlds were pretty dumb for not testing air and water first for pathogens.
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ALF stupid, not much else I can say about it.
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1) I like Signs; I think it does fairly well despite its utterly idiotic plotholes (pointed out in this thread).
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They're basically the same aliens. Signs used War of the Worlds as a backdrop to the main story.
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Originally Posted by Pouncer
The Martians in War of the Worlds were pretty dumb for not testing air and water first for pathogens.
They're not as dumb as as the aliens in Signs though. |
The War of the World aliens used ground based vehicles that were self contained and sealed off from the outside environment. They likely knew the atmosphere might be dangerous to us. The same as we know that going to another planet, any planet with life, would likely be dangerous to us... same as intercontinental travel is or was dangerous back a hundred years ago or so because of germs.
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So they invaded with vehicles that were totally hermetically sealed from the outside environment, and they still managed to be killed off by Earth's diseases. That makes them sound wildly incompetent in addition to being completely stupid.
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Originally Posted by Durakken
The War of the World aliens used ground based vehicles that were self contained and sealed off from the outside environment. They likely knew the atmosphere might be dangerous to us. The same as we know that going to another planet, any planet with life, would likely be dangerous to us... same as intercontinental travel is or was dangerous back a hundred years ago or so because of germs.
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Goodbye, I guess.
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And yet they still ATE US!
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Originally Posted by Durakken
The War of the World aliens used ground based vehicles that were self contained and sealed off from the outside environment. They likely knew the atmosphere might be dangerous to us. The same as we know that going to another planet, any planet with life, would likely be dangerous to us... same as intercontinental travel is or was dangerous back a hundred years ago or so because of germs.
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Originally Posted by Durakken
The War of the World aliens used ground based vehicles that were self contained and sealed off from the outside environment. They likely knew the atmosphere might be dangerous to us. The same as we know that going to another planet, any planet with life, would likely be dangerous to us... same as intercontinental travel is or was dangerous back a hundred years ago or so because of germs.
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Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
So they invaded with vehicles that were totally hermetically sealed from the outside environment, and they still managed to be killed off by Earth's diseases. That makes them sound wildly incompetent in addition to being completely stupid.
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Originally Posted by Alpha-One
And yet they still ATE US!
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Yeah but on a scale of like 1 to 10 with Sign Aliens being an 11... the War of the Worlds aliens are like an 7 or 8 ^.^
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Signs, on the other hand, was directed by Shyamalan.
So Yeah.
Humans.
They are living proof that there is no intelligent life in the universe.
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Humans.
They are living proof that there is no intelligent life in the universe. |
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Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade
Trekkie though I be, I agree that the Borg have always been stupid when it came to assimilating Earth. Both times they used just one ship and came within a hair's breadth of succeeding, so why not send more than one ship and guarantee success?
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Easy answer.
Like Douglas Adams once wrote: Space is big, like really big, mind bogglingly massive etc... Most of the Borg as far as we know are in the delta quadrant. Even with Transwarp drive it takes years to get from the delta quadrant to here.
If they used the transwarp conduit netwok thingy the amount of energy required to move a fleet large enough to ensure complete destruction/assimilation of the entire Federation, accross the galaxy would be astronomical.
Then taking into account the amount of species still in the Delta Quadrant yet to be asimilated and the fact that the Federation is too far away to be a real threat (Before Voyager destroyer of Borg)
Then since Voyager crippled the Transwarp network, killed the Queen and provided the Alpha Quadrant with Uber borg killing weapons, It wouldn't make logical sense to throw ships against an enemy that could destroy entire cubes with one torpedo until a defence had been developed. Not to mention they already have one of thoses type of enemies at their doorstep and after their losses to both Voyager and Species 8472 (Hate the name Udine) it makes more sense to consoldate and rebuild for now while another Queen is bred/created...
The first cube to attack the Federation was following the Enterprise and was already a long long way from Borg space before it continued onto Earth via the famous battle of Wolf 359.
The second cube was supposed to take out the Federation before it even existed.
Neither of these "attacks" were full frontal assaults. Rather a scout and a somewhat blunt attempt at a surgical(ish) strike.
If you want Full on Borg invasion though, Read the Destiny Novels. Dubbed not canon since STO took on the Post Next Generation story but still a good take on a Borg invasion.
The Borg in my view are just Logical, if a little complacent...
As for The most Stupid Aliens... Never Watched Signs, so its a toss up between the War of the Worlds Martians and Gungans... Actually come to think of it, wasn't ET a bit dim?
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Originally Posted by Mr_Mac
If you want Full on Borg invasion though, Read the Destiny Novels. Dubbed not canon since STO took on the Post Next Generation story but still a good take on a Borg invasion.
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We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
So...
Which alien (civilization) is the stupidest of all?
I think the ID4 aliens are pretty smart and got killed via plot...
The Species aliens, whoever they are, are genius sending us genetic data to kill us...
The Signs aliens... have to be the dumbest civ ever... attacking a civ on a planet that is 75% poison to yourself and attacking with ground troops... that are naked... and attacking solo.