And they never knew it.
This film, the first of five alien nation films made for Fox, serves the primary purpose of settling the cliffhanger from "green eyes".
But where one threat ends, a new threat begins.
This film starts with the ominous view of a huge Tectonese military vessel. The same ship which was detected in the episode "contact", now we know that the signal sent from JPL was successful. The ship carries worse than the KleesonSun (click), it contains highly trained agents that are bent upon retrieving the 250,000 "Drega"- and more.
When we first meet Ahpossno, he appears to be overseer slime. He is slime.
But then something remarkable happens, he meets the "Sam" Francisco family, and all of the people associated.
We start to see that as evil as he appeared to be, he had feelings. But he does not realize this until it is way too late.
It's too bad because this character would have been a great addition to the ever growing Francisco family.
Susanna Thompson, who played the role of the Borg Queen in Star Trek Voyager a few times, takes over the role of Lorraine Clark formerly done by Barbara Bush. She does not convince me that she is the same character and she reveals religious hypocrisy that is quite distasteful, especially to Matt "Sykes".
Sykes was the first one to see that there was something non-kosher about Ahpossno, who infects Susan and Buck with Some bad Tectonese-only ideas. As well as wedging himself in between Kathy and Matt.
It's too bad that they could not keep the character in the series.
Amazingly, everybody who had been in the show reprised their roles- all except for Lorraine. It would not have hurt the story to just omit the very small part she plays.
