# V- the various incarnations ... the recipies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683 "2014-10-07T20:05:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/1 "2014-10-07T20:05:17Z")
So, there have been several incarnations of the schlocky 80’s sci-fi series V – wherein aliens come to Earth, bent basically on the conquest of the human race as a food source. There was the original 80’s one, the more modern reboot, some novels. Do any of them mention how they eat humans? In the 80’s incarnation, they’re reptilods that prefer eating small mammals and birds whole, raw and living. Humans are roughly their size, so how do they eat us? A casserole of me perhaps, or a nice grilled steak, or moderately processed, as an ingredient in soup (just like on the Twilight Zone), or heavily processed as a protein diet additive for hatchlings. Basically, give what they like to eat, this seems like a plot hole, and I wonder if it was ever addressed. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/2 "2014-10-07T22:01:30Z")
I can’t provide a cite, but in the original 80’ series one human, a young guy who’s been a collaborator, falls afoul of the Visitors and is “invited to dinner” and it’s made clear he won’t be a guest. Neither is any mention made of killing him beforehand. But I can’t back this up. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/3 "2014-10-08T09:07:49Z")
Yeah, I remember that, they also had humans, in tubes, for their brainwashing experiments. So again, there was no hard evidence of Human Butchery 101 – which are the choice cuts, which bits are just good for hamburger or sausage. Except – the visitors never seem to eat, burgers or sausages. At least, not in the original miniseries. I didn’t really sit through the series. And I never caught the reboot. The novelizations may have fleshed out (heh) the storyline more. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/4 "2014-10-08T13:50:16Z")
I vaguely remember a short scene in the original miniseries or the weekly series in which Diana, the lead alien, opens her mouth and swallows a live rat whole. (And then there was a whole bit about how their real goal was to steal the water from earth, which seems implausible.) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/5 "2014-10-08T13:59:56Z")
The original series didn’t have us as a food source. The Visitors needed Earth for the water, not humans as food. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/6 "2014-10-08T14:20:30Z")
Not correct. Their planet had two great shortages, food and water. Humans certainly were being harvested for the former. As for recipes, tt was noted that they didn’t eat anything cooked. So they just chop up their victims and devour raw. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/7 "2014-10-08T14:26:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The original series didn’t have us as a food source. The Visitors needed Earth for the water, not humans as food. No, I watched that series about eleventy hundred times, as my parents had taped if off the TV for me. They were definitely after water AND humans for food. There was a scene where the rebels had infiltrated a mother ship and found a giant cargo bay filled with humans stacked in coffins - it sort of looked like that scene in The Matrix. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/8 "2014-10-08T14:30:55Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > … Diana, the lead alien … She wasn’t actually the leader, she was chief scientist, an obvious analogy to Mengele. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/9 "2014-10-08T14:35:13Z")
Mis-typed - the original _mini-series_. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/10 "2014-10-08T14:45:17Z")
In the reboot, there’s a scene where the leader mates with her best soldier so as to breed a big vat of supersoldiers. Her eggs are going to need nourishment, so she feeds… on the soldier, by taking a big bite out his neck. One assumes this was the first of many, so, I’d say the Morena Baccarin-version eats human-sized prey like they were barbecued ribs, only without the cooking. And the barbecue sauce. And probably messier. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/11 "2014-10-08T21:14:05Z")
They weren’t polite enough to leave a cook book behind like some other aliens did. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-the-various-incarnations-the-recipies/700683/12 "2014-10-09T01:27:43Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Not correct. Their planet had two great shortages, food and water. Humans certainly were being harvested for the former. And having a technology advanced enough to develop large-fleet _ **interstellar travel** _, they seek to get water _from the surface_ of planets, ignoring a billion comets and ice moons just floating around for the easy taking; and food by harvesting live vertebrates off those planetary surfaces (as opposed to factory-breeding and cloning and synthetizing from all those resources floating around). No wonder we can put up a viable resistance.