The capability is very rare ; in " The Andorian Incident ", the Andorians, whose technology is far superior to Starfleet's in many regards, are explicitly stated not to possess the technology, and in " Chosen Realm ", a group of alien religious extremists who hijack the ship is unaware of it to the point that when Archer, choosing himself when their leader insists on sacrificing a crew member, takes the captain at his word when told that the device disintegrates matter rather than teleporting it.

* In Ghostbusters II a woman named Elaine appears on Dr Peter Venkman's show " World of the Psychic " and claims an alien told her that the world would end on February 14, 2016.

Writer Samuel A. Peeples told Roddenberry these attributes made Spock too alien, and suggested " he should at least be half-human and have the problems of both sides ", believing the human traits made the character more interesting and able to comment on the human condition more believably.

An alien known as The Traveler expressed to Captain Picard ( who was told not to tell Dr. Crusher ) that Wesley had a unique intelligence and great potential if provided encouragement and opportunity, comparing him to a child prodigy like Mozart.

Two years later, Reagan told the United Nations, " I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world ".

He told screenwriter Melissa Mathison about Night Skies, and developed a subplot from the failed project, in which Buddy, the only friendly alien, befriends an autistic child.

The attackers are insect-like aliens who threaten to turn the inhabitants of the Pastel City into hideous, mindless insects: the story is told through both human and alien points of view and perceptions.

* The alien prince Mozark's journey in the galaxy-wide Ring Empire, a story told by Denise Ebourn to the kindergarten children.

Jack remembers his abduction experience from the previous volume, recalling that his alien captors told him that he is the messiah.

Qarase had told a meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Nadi the day before that western-style democracy was an alien concept in Fiji, and that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was not compatible with Fiji's hierarchical order.

After the Annoi told the Starfleet ships to surrender, the Starseeker opened fire and was destroyed, while Troi contacted the alien and convinced it to crash on a nearby planet so that the Enterprise can help it to free itself along with rescuing other prisoners the Annoi were using as slaves on the surface.

He is told that he is part of a crew of a starship of alien / human hybrids from a planet called Werel and meets a young man, Orry, who came with him in the ship.

The story is told from the point of view of a human historian on a star ship on the way to Alpha Centauri ( the aliens ' home star ) who is using the time in transit to translate two alien books and to write a history of how humans gained access to the alien's knowledge.

Vorilhon said that he was given a message by this alien and told that it was his mission to pass this message on to the people of Earth.

: Can the peaceful, the stable, and the free world for which we hope be created if it is envisioned from the outset as half slave and half free ?- if hundreds of millions of human beings are told that they are destined to remain indefinitely under alien subjection?

" Here was a man who, when told the cost of a spaceship for a Lost in Space alien, snapped, ' Let him walk!

Some have allegedly reported seeing an alien base ( code named " Luna ") and even encountered aliens who told them to stay off the Moon.

In other stories Tichy meets alien civilisations whose detached perspective enables Lem to poke fun at humanity ; on one of his voyages Tichy meets a priest whose colleague has been hideously martyred by a thoroughly unselfish and well-intentioned race of aliens because he had told them that a martyr's death was one of the greatest things to which a Christian could aspire.

Through the series, we are told of how vampires evolved from a warrior class created by an alien race called the Nephilim.

Unaware that an alien agent has been posing as him, this Frigate, whose life story is identical in most respects to the one which the phony Frigate told ( the exception being the real Frigate was born and lived a few decades earlier than the impostor had claimed ), has been living an ordinary life along the river.

However, when she is taken to a secret underground base on the Martian moon Phobos containing an ancient alien relic that opens a portal to a distant part of the galaxy, and told that she is to go through it, she begins to have second thoughts about continuing with her mission.

After arriving at the bunker, Ben is told by General James Eiger that the Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a fleet of alien ships heading towards Earth.

The alien told them that her species was dying and the four women allowed her to plant four alien eggs in their bodies so that the alien species has a chance to survive.

In the most confidential whispers ambassadors told of techniques they had tried to bring Rooney around -- friendly persuasion, groveling abasement, pressure subtly exerted through other powerful congressmen, tales of heartbreak and penury among a threadbare diplomatic corps.

After he is told that Roman ambassadors are also in Athens, Attalus goes there in haste.

The Athenians initially received these ambassadors well, but Alcibiades met with them in secret before they were to speak to the ecclesia ( the Athenian Assembly ) and told them that the Assembly was haughty and had great ambitions.

Blockaded by land and sea, with their food supplies running low, the Athenians sent ambassadors to the Spartan king Agis, whose army was camped outside their walls, offering to join the Spartan alliance if they were allowed to keep their walls and port ; Agis, claiming that he had no power to negotiate, sent the ambassadors on to Sparta, but there they were told that, if they really wanted peace, they should bring the Spartans better proposals.

The Athenians initially received these ambassadors well, but Alcibiades met with them in secret before they were to speak to the ecclesia ( the Athenian Assembly ) and told them that the Assembly was haughty and had great ambitions.

Justin received the pope's letters with great respect, and told the ambassadors to come to an explanation with the patriarch, who at first wished to express his adherence in the form of a letter, but agreed to write a little preface and place after it the words of Hormisdas, which he copied out in his own handwriting.

She had never wanted to be a mistress, and when foreign ambassadors visited her to ask her to use her influence, she told them she had none and that she did not wish to have any.

The ambassadors probably exaggerated the immediate danger to the empire, which was temporarily stalled by Seljuk infighting ; Alexius also told them to remind them that Jerusalem was also held by Muslims, knowing that western Christians, too, attached a special significance to the city at the centre of the world which Muslims had denied them pilgrimage to.

Many an Emperor told Western ambassadors that he was not interested in the gadgets and toys that the West had to offer.

However, Su's old assistant Chang Hui secretly informed the ambassadors of Su's exile, and the ambassadors, under Chang's suggestion, told then-chanyu Huyandi ( 壺衍鞮 ) that Emperor Zhao had killed a migratory goose while hunting, and that a letter from Su seeking help was found on the bird's foot.

`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

This baffling lack of distinct details recalls the secretary whose employer was leaving the office and told her what to answer if anyone called in his absence.

Each was told to purchase material if he felt like it.

the Mexicans not only refused to give them, but told the possemen if they wanted a fight they could have it.

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

William was adamant on one point: under no circumstances would he allow the Negroes to remain on the plantation with his and Henry's slaves if they were told of their coming freedom.

if she told anyone of the opium it must be Lucien, her husband.

Andy told him, `` Bake, I wish you'd talk to Skolman, see if some kind of p. a. system can be rigged up outside.

The boy had, apparently -- if Mrs. MacReady was right in what she had told Mullins -- only in recent months been forced to give up college, to work as a busboy.

After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.

`` This year, coach Royal told me if I'd work on my place-kicking he thought he could use me '', said Moritz.

He told me he vowed right then that if he ever got to be a star, this never would be said of him ''.

Here was a powerful, ready-made medium, but it could speak only if I told it to.

It made him pretty hot under the collar, after the idea Miss Sis had given him, to be told by Miss Kiz that her holy spa was all reserved for this summer and next, if you please, and that much as she regretted it, they would be unable to entertain Mrs. Robards and the children.

In my person they would always remember that last long time of me alone with her, so if they told themselves that I could have prevented it, I can understand that by now and love them still, because everyone must justify, have a scapegoat for what is not to be borne.

Would you be happier if I made up some stories about my life, told you some lies??

When they sought advice about this event, an oracle told them to take the head down and bury it, and to make annual sacrifice to Onesilos as a hero, saying that it would be better for them if they did this.

However we are told by Longinus that Ammonius wrote nothing, and if Ammonius was the principal influence on Plotinus, then it is unlikely that Ammonius would have been a Christian.

Upon his departure, Aegeus told him to put up white sails when returning if he was successful in killing the Minotaur.

In this passage, a soldier asks the Buddha if it is true that, as he has been told, soldiers slain in battle are reborn in a heavenly realm.

The club was ridiculed during the 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that Ian Rush had told him that " if didn't drink lots of milk, when up, only be good enough to play for Accrington Stanley ".

George Washington was so appalled by them that he told Patrick Henry that if " systematically and pertinaciously pursued ", they would " dissolve the union or produce coercion ".

A Paramount employee told biographer Orrin Keepnews that Jefferson was a womanizing sloppy drunk ; on the other hand, Jefferson's neighbor in Chicago, Romeo Nelson, reports him as being " warm and cordial ," and singer Rube Lacy states that Jefferson always refused to play on a Sunday, " even if you give me two hundred.