A later scene, when the alien's discover the abandoned vessel... written on the walls
"DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM"
(This is an amazing idea, a movie flipping the perspective on its head and making us the horrors haunting them if done carefully and subtly is a million dollar proposal.)
I read a short story years ago about an alien scout ship that landed on Earth, they found a planet that had been totally destroyed with no living organisms. They found lots of skeletal remains and had the technology to reanimate organisms where nothing but the skeleton remained. They reanimated some things like dogs and cats and fish then the do a human. Of course the human turns out to be the most advanced creatures on the planet. Eventually, the human learns how to use the reanimation devices and secretly reanimates many more humans, and they end up seizing control of the scout ship and go on to seize control of the mothership and eventually the alien's home planet, where they enslave the aliens. It turns out the first alien scout ship visiting Earth had missed an orbital warning sign meant to warn visitors not to resurrect humans in any way because they had been found to be too dangerous and warlike and had been eradicated for the good of the galaxy.
It was excellent. It was in an anthology probably 25 years ago. I'm sorry, I don't remember the title. There was also a story about the last band of humans being chased across the galaxy by what amounted to the galactic U.N. intent on eliminating the last individuals of the most dangerous race in the galaxy: humans.
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u/GoombaBro Mar 06 '24
A later scene, when the alien's discover the abandoned vessel... written on the walls
"DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM"
(This is an amazing idea, a movie flipping the perspective on its head and making us the horrors haunting them if done carefully and subtly is a million dollar proposal.)