# Any sci fi featuring ancient gods as aliens, a la that Star Trek episode?

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**Created:** [January 4, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sci-fi-featuring-ancient-gods-as-aliens-a-la-that-star-trek-episode/386733 "2007-01-04T21:17:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![brianmelendez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sci-fi-featuring-ancient-gods-as-aliens-a-la-that-star-trek-episode/386733/41 "2007-01-06T22:29:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Happy Scrappy Hero Pup]  
Just ducking in to point out that Star Trek V was on the movie channel today.  
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Surely you must be mistaken. Never any such movie.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sci-fi-featuring-ancient-gods-as-aliens-a-la-that-star-trek-episode/386733/42 "2007-01-07T01:22:10Z")

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The gods - all sorts of gods, like the norse and south american ones - are either aliens or from other dimensions in Everworld by K. A. Applegate.

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**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sci-fi-featuring-ancient-gods-as-aliens-a-la-that-star-trek-episode/386733/43 "2007-01-07T10:08:25Z")

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Thorne Smith’s (he’s the guy who wrote Topper) [Night Life Of The Gods](http://www.amazon.com/night-life-gods-Thorne-Smith/dp/B00087KX3E) (Greek gods, P. G. Wodehouse-style) is a lot of fun.  
It’s not exactly aliens come to earth, but there is definitely a period of adjustment as the gods “arrive,” a few risque scenes, lots of banter.

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**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sci-fi-featuring-ancient-gods-as-aliens-a-la-that-star-trek-episode/386733/44 "2007-01-07T19:15:14Z")

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Don’t forget the “Area 51: . . .” series of books by Robert Doherty.

J.

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**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sci-fi-featuring-ancient-gods-as-aliens-a-la-that-star-trek-episode/386733/45 "2007-01-07T19:56:22Z")

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[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]  
As in _Who Mourns for Adonis?_ aliens took on the identies, or posed as, Greek gods in order to rule ancient Greece. 🙂  
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Actually I got the feeling that the aliens were the actual gods and that what we call myth was more like history.

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