Talk:Virus (1999 film)

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The program considers humanity a virus and attempts to destroy it because in its mind, virus = bad, but it doesn't realize that itself is a virus.

[edit] Plot Description errors

"The lifeform invades Mir (the Russian space station) and is transmitted to a Russian research ship, and sets out to exterminate the crew of a tugboat who find the derelict ship." - I'm not sure but I don't think that exterminating the crew of the tugboat was it's ONLY goal. I think the virus wanted to kill/assimilate every living thing possible.

"To do this, the alien creates cyborgs by fusing the corpses of its victims with various electronic parts. These creations are manufactured in a mini-factory it built in the ship."

- It didn't make the cyborgs JUST to kill the crew of the tugboat, as I said above. Also, the factory was already part of the ship when it took it over, not something it built inside the ship.

Dr. Mordecai 09:03, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Deleting some of the trivia as it is opinion and original research, others should get sources or they too will be deleted. First, theres no proof that its Canadian, its just your opinion because you see a Red Jack and no Brit accents, thats not enough for wiki, and that really only suggests that the Captain is (that and the Webley Revolver), at least one was Mexican, that suggests a multicultural North American crew, not Canadian. Second similarities between cybirgs in this and other fiction works is insignificant and not noteworthy, unless PERHAPs they are called the Borg and maybe the same special effects or costume guy worked on them both. Even borg isn't that relevant, hardly an original name, its just shorter for cyborg. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 07:02, 9 March 2008 (UTC)