The best part:

To answer your question, it appeared to me to be the shape-shifting material of the beta unit in the process of making itself look like Alex Rogan.

Never mind that it already seemed much closer to looking like Alex back in Centauri's star car when it first shook Alex's hand. (Two steps backward and then three steps forward, perhaps?)

Just watched it again.
Hey. I remember when this movie was new.
But then, I remember when computers filled a 3-car garage and didn't have the computing power you now have in your desktop.

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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things,"
Of atoms, stars and nebulæ, of entropy and genes.
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