You know how sci-fi tends to get formulaic? You know, like how there is always a formula that translates to good guys fight the bad guys and win despite losses?
The bad guys are usually the "aliens" and the good guys are often humans. The one thing I liked about Star Wars is that the bad guys were humans -- think about it, for the most part, the Empire was comprised of humans, human clones, and human-sith. Aliens were "inferior".
It would be cool to have a sci-fi series/movie where humans from Earth have achieved an advanced level of technology and go off to explore the galaxy. However, instead of being benevolent explorers like the Federation or SG-1/SG-A, they are evil and imperialistic. When the encounter aliens, they conquer, kill, and destroy. It would be a nice change to see humans being the baddies for once.
It reminds me of a book I read once where the US sends another manned mission to the darkside of the moon. There, they find a flag with a Nazi swastika on it and a plaque/memorial from the 1940s dedicating the site to Der Fuehrer. In the book, a UFO crashed in the black forrest in Germany in the 1940s and the SS retrieved the wreck including two survivors -- Roswell-type grays. The SS interrogated the aliens, tortured them, and began to learn about their pacifist society. They also began to reverse engineer the ship.
Finally, they were able to repair the ship, learn the location of the alien homeworld, and sent elite Waffen-SS troops to conquer the aliens and leave Earth since the war was lost by then.
I don't remember a lot more than that, but I think the Nazis eventually created a huge empire in space and then were going to come back to Earth to reclaim their homeworld.
Anyway, sorry for rambling...it's late!
The bad guys are usually the "aliens" and the good guys are often humans. The one thing I liked about Star Wars is that the bad guys were humans -- think about it, for the most part, the Empire was comprised of humans, human clones, and human-sith. Aliens were "inferior".
It would be cool to have a sci-fi series/movie where humans from Earth have achieved an advanced level of technology and go off to explore the galaxy. However, instead of being benevolent explorers like the Federation or SG-1/SG-A, they are evil and imperialistic. When the encounter aliens, they conquer, kill, and destroy. It would be a nice change to see humans being the baddies for once.
It reminds me of a book I read once where the US sends another manned mission to the darkside of the moon. There, they find a flag with a Nazi swastika on it and a plaque/memorial from the 1940s dedicating the site to Der Fuehrer. In the book, a UFO crashed in the black forrest in Germany in the 1940s and the SS retrieved the wreck including two survivors -- Roswell-type grays. The SS interrogated the aliens, tortured them, and began to learn about their pacifist society. They also began to reverse engineer the ship.
Finally, they were able to repair the ship, learn the location of the alien homeworld, and sent elite Waffen-SS troops to conquer the aliens and leave Earth since the war was lost by then.
I don't remember a lot more than that, but I think the Nazis eventually created a huge empire in space and then were going to come back to Earth to reclaim their homeworld.
Anyway, sorry for rambling...it's late!
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