trailer for "protector"

the u.s. producers forgot that "protector" was another martial arts
slash buddy cop movie with jackie chan and danny aiello.

Zombie Elvis...

Funny, I always thought it was an advanced alien race that turned into
humans when they took an odd fruit called "tree of life" -- or was
that vice versa?

Anim8rFSK...

Vice versa. Humans turns into Protectors when they eat Tree-of-Life,
assuming they're the right age and such.

JXStern...

but the non-sentients become sentient by eating tree-of-life, so if
you equate sentient with human ...

Anim8rFSK...

But the non-sentients aren't an advanced alien race; they're plains
apes. And they become sentient even without the tree-of-life virus; it
just takes a few million years. :-)

Default User...

Yar, we're the Breeders. Not to get into too many details, but it's not
actually the fruit but a virus it carries. Featured most prominently in
the Larry Niven book Protector.

Anim8rFSK...

I'd say the last couple of Ringworld books give Protector a run for the

Default User...

There are no last couple Ringworld books. In a parallel universe they
might exist, but if you stay in on foggy nights that shouldn't be a
problem.

Anim8rFSK...

LOL, yeah, I'm kind of wanting to disavow Ringworld's Children myself.

'most' title.