Genocide Dilemma: Difference between revisions

** The great irony with the Xenomorphs is that they need live hosts in order to spread. One person = one Xenomorph. If people would just leave them alone they wouldn't be a threat.

*** The third film establishes that they can implant other mammals.

 

 

** The writers [[Writer Cop Out|took the easy way out]] of the Dilgar question by having their sun go nova shortly after the Dilgar War. How convenient. However, the original punishment was that they stranded all the Dilgar on their homeworld without Faster Than Light travel. The RPG tells of a Dilgar colony that avoided their fate, who (justifiably) stay out of galactic politics, but are not known for the horrors of the rest of the species.

** Gets a bit more interesting, however, when it's pointed out the REASON Dilgar went to war was because their sun was going to go supernova.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': humans from a Cylon point of view. At the end of the Miniseries, the Cylons agree that they unfortunately can't give up pursuit of the human fleet even though it's left the Colonial solar system behind and just wants to get as far away as possible, because any survivors will inevitably return and seek revenge.

** A more straight example: In the episode "Torn", the Colonial fleet discovers a virus that kills Cylons horribly and doesn't affect humans. Cue big debate about the ethics of intentionally infecting the Cylon Resurrection Ship with it. Despite the inevitability that the Cylons would have found a cure/treatment/ray gun that addressed the disease before being wiped out entirely (given their technological levels), the debate almost immediately leads to a member of the crew taking matters into their own hands to save the Cylons from the minor inconvenience of losing one resurrection ship (read: perceived genocide).