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What is the relation between the Mor-Taxans and Morthrens?



In season 1, the aliens that were re-animated from the 53 invasion were aliens from a planet called Mor-Tax. They were very insect looking, with three arms and three fingers. And they even saw everything in three. They somehow merged inside human bodies to avoid detection.

In season 2, the aliens came from Morthrai and they looked humanoid and cloned people instead of taking over human bodies. They wipe out the Mor-Taxans and take over the invasion. Which leads to one question, what was the relationship between the Morthrens and Mor-Taxans.

Were they the same race which evolved differently because they were on different planets? Or are the Mor-taxans a conquered slave race which serves the Morthrens? In the season 2 episode "Seth of Emun", during a flashback sequence, we see the Morthrens using Mor-taxans to attack the planet of Emun, so were the Mor-taxans a warrior race that did the Morthrens bidding? That god like thing the Morthrens worship, The Eternal One, looks more like a Mor-Taxan then a Morthren, so, there is some connection between the two races.

I know they used different type of technology. The Mor-taxans used those gold ships with the heat ray and skeleton beams, in one season 1 episode, they had a little boomerang looking thing which shot the skeleton beam. The Morthrens, otoh, had this little green orb which shot a green a fast green laser which disentegrated whoever it touched.

When the Mor-taxans died, they dissolved into a puddle of goo. When the Morthrens die, they shriek out as they bleed out some shiny green blood, their skin dissolves inward, and then they dust away like some vampire. Unless they explained it and I don't recall, I don't think they ever explained how the Morthrens and Mor-Taxans were related or connected to each other. So, what do you think was the connection?

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Jason where are you?

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Frank Mancuso jr took over making the series for season 2 and sadly it showed.He didn't know anything about the mythology of the show which was set up by Greg Strangis because he couldn't be bothered to watch season 1.Thats why they replaced the Mor Taxens with the crapy Morthren and the seting was changed to the near distant cyber punk future of almost tomorrow.I personly would give up trying to tie up the Mot Taxian connection to the Morthren because im sure Frank Mancuso jr claerly didn't care about any form of continuity.It seemed that he couldn't make up his mind weather they were the same species.In some episodes it was implyed that they wern't only for later episodes to say that they were.I always wished that Greg Strangis wern't forced off the show and continued on into season 2.Then we would have least had many loose plot threads answered like Quinns atempts to seize leadership of the Mortaxans away from the Advocacy and the true motovies of their alien enemy the Qua;To.I never liked the Morthren as they wern't scarey at all but the Mortaxans on the other hand scared the crap out of me because they went out of their way to mutilate humans at every oportunity.
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So it's treason then!

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I wonder if perhaps the back story was the same the series would have went down better with die hard fans. I did like the second series in some ways, I liked Adrian Paul (great actor) and the challenges faced as our heroes had to go "underground" with the Blackwood Project coming to an end. I was literally gutted when they killed off Ironhorse and Norton Drake I have to say, but despite all these changes which come about on shows anyway - the nature of the beast - why, why, WHY change the aliens look, name, origin, goals and purpose?

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The ratings for season one fell short of the renewal minimum, so it had to be retooled, with new producers.

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