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I've just watched Star Treks 2 (Khan) and 3 (The Search For Spock) on Channel 4 Catchup, which was either filling a gap in my cultural knowledge or three hours of my life which I'm never going to get back. I'd seen bits of both of them in the early 90s, but had never watched either right through.
There's a bit in the third film where they go down to the Genesis Planet, on which life evolves quickly and unstably as a result of some experiment or other done by Kirk's son. They find the pod which carried Spock's body after his death (the tomb is already empty and he has been reborn). They find it surrounded by insectoid creatures the size of a human foot, and it is explained that they must have evolved from "space microbes" on the capsule. A little later the Klingons arrive, and the creatures have evolved into large snake-like creatures, big enough to wrap themselves around the arm and torso of a Klingon, who kills it by poking out its throat with his thumb. Klingons are bigger than humans, so presumably the snake creatures would be big enough to kill a human.
I wonder whether this was - either consciously or unconsciously - the inspiration for the worms which evolve in the black goo into snake creatures strong enough to break the arm of and then kill Milburn the biologist. The origin of the creatures is not explained at all in "Prometheus", no doubt because it was assumed to be obvious (actually it isn't, on first viewing).
The closing sentence in the plot describes content which was not picked up in any of the subsequent films in the franchise. It looks like a non sequitur. It should at least state, "In the lifeboat left behind on the planet, an alien creature bursts out of the Engineer's chest."
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I've just watched Star Treks 2 (Khan) and 3 (The Search For Spock) on Channel 4 Catchup, which was either filling a gap in my cultural knowledge or three hours of my life which I'm never going to get back. I'd seen bits of both of them in the early 90s, but had never watched either right through.
There's a bit in the third film where they go down to the Genesis Planet, on which life evolves quickly and unstably as a result of some experiment or other done by Kirk's son. They find the pod which carried Spock's body after his death (the tomb is already empty and he has been reborn). They find it surrounded by insectoid creatures the size of a human foot, and it is explained that they must have evolved from "space microbes" on the capsule. A little later the Klingons arrive, and the creatures have evolved into large snake-like creatures, big enough to wrap themselves around the arm and torso of a Klingon, who kills it by poking out its throat with his thumb. Klingons are bigger than humans, so presumably the snake creatures would be big enough to kill a human.
I wonder whether this was - either consciously or unconsciously - the inspiration for the worms which evolve in the black goo into snake creatures strong enough to break the arm of and then kill Milburn the biologist. The origin of the creatures is not explained at all in "Prometheus", no doubt because it was assumed to be obvious (actually it isn't, on first viewing).
The closing sentence in the plot describes content which was not picked up in any of the subsequent films in the franchise. It looks like a non sequitur. It should at least state, "In the lifeboat left behind on the planet, an alien creature bursts out of the Engineer's chest."
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