I tuned in for a nostalgia boost, but when I got to the part where the robot (who's an ALIEN now??) says "Danger, Will Robinson," it was all wrong, so I stopped.-Beckett Mufson.
I was trying to make a point about journalists: that we would not hesitate to ask about a nonmainstream secular belief — space aliens or the danger of immunization — but we tend to back away from matters of religion.
If you want an adrenaline rush without physical danger, rent "Alien".
"It will make us choose either between requesting an agency to declassify national security information, or going ahead and letting a benefit be granted to an alien who is a danger to national security," the immigration official said.
However, other branches, like the Interior Department, have not yet awakened to the more insidious dangers that alien species pose to wildlife and natural ecosystems.
"It is just the market at work, drawing people to jobs, and the I.N.S. has chosen to concentrate its actions on aliens who are a danger to the community," said Robert L. Bach, the agency's associate commissioner for policy and planning.
Flick through the comment pages of the right-leaning newspapers and it won't be long before you find an essay written not by an unemployed white lad in Leeds but by a learned, well-paid commentator in the south-east, outlining the danger the fundamentally alien culture of Islam poses to the "rest of us".
Intent on returning home to Earth to face trial for their perceived crimes, the former crew of the USS Enterprise finds the planet in grave danger from an alien probe attempting to contact now-extinct humpback whales.
Of course people don't want criminal aliens here who are a danger.
It's easy to think of them as naive non-westerners, unaware of the possible dangers of an alien substance.
