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   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Hunter"  wrote   
      
   > Seriously Mulder, tell us how you really feel.  Interesting episode   
   > - introduction of good old Jeffrey Spender and his mom, and the return   
   > of Ratboy and Beewoman who promply start humping like weasels in a   
   > dirty, stinky hold of a Russian ship. Yeehaw.   
      
   Weasels hump on their hind legs against bulkheads?   
      
   > So....would you say that there's now 4 different alien 'factions'? The   
   > black oil with purpose unknown but the consortium (and Russians) seems   
   > to want a vaccine for it, the colonizing aliens who are working at   
   > creating hybridized humans, the bounty hunter anti-colonists with the   
   > plams, and now the anti-bounty hunter aliens with the no eyes/no mouth   
   > (and I don't even wanna think about what other orifices they don't   
   > have or have sewn shut). Of all the planets in the universe, they had   
   > to wander into our little backwater for their fun and games...   
      
   The Black Oil and the colonist aliens are the same thing. The Oil, or Virus,   
   is sort of their 'essence' or life force. It can live inside of a regular   
   alien body, or it can come out and ooze around on its own. I don't think   
   this was explained before 'Patient X', but it would be clarified later on,   
   especially in FTF, 'The Beginning', and 'Two Fathers'/'One Son'.   
      
   The Bounty Hunter, I believe, also works for the colonists. Or at least,   
   started out working for them -- sometimes it seems like he reports directly   
   to CSM. Of course, being a bounty hunter, I'm sure he'd work for anyone who   
   could pay him. (Which brings up an interesting question: What kind of   
   payment does he get? I doubt that Zeta Reticuli, or whatever, recognises the   
   US dollar as legal tender.) And I think there's only supposed to be one of   
   him, but you never know. It's not explicitly stated in any episode I can   
   remember. Hell, it could be like with Weyoun on DS9, where every time he   
   dies they just clone a new one. The fact that one of the rebel aliens also   
   looked suspiciously like Brian Thompson suggests any number of   
   possibilities, none of which is particularly likely to ever be confirmed or   
   denied.   
      
   So, really, I guess, there are three important alien groups: the Colonists,   
   the Rebels, and the Bounty Hunter(s).   
      
   > Interesting that the elders were talking about a 15 year timetable -   
   > math's a bit wonky (1998+15=2013) but it could be tie in with the   
   > Mayan calendar. Perhaps the alien colonists are right-brainers...   
      
   But it was *March* 1998 when the episode aired. If the big day doesn't   
   happen until December 2012, that would be 14 years and 9 months. They   
   probably just rounded up.   
      
   Actually, judging from the time stamps on various other episodes, there's a   
   good chance that it's supposed to have 'really' happened a few days to weeks   
   or maybe even months before the air date. That would make it even closer to   
   15 years.   
      
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   --Sean   
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