That was the episode Coprophage. It's one of my favorites. I like the scene
where the cockroach appears to crawl down your TV screen. And how about the
entemologist named Bambi?
Mary W. Satlin wrote:
> In a message dated 7/21/99 4:06:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
>
> << An X Files episode from this past season involved one of the characters
> getting infected with nanotachnology (and what nasty little "bugs" they
> were! >>
> Darin Morgan, a very clever fellow [the TVGuide for that week said he had a
> "deviant mind"], wrote that episode. The premise was that buglike or
> insectoid artificial life existed, possibly as alien probes gathering
> information. I saw it again just a few days ago [FX reruns XFiles].
>
> Nanotech has the potential for being beneficial. It doesn't necessarily have
> to be nasty, though Agent Mulder certainly didn't see it that way--in the
> closing scene he swatted a very large and unusual appearing one, all his "I
> Want to Believe" mindset temporarily out the window. I guess we all hope we
> wouldn't be xenophobic but where bugs are concerned we're pretty well
> programmed that way. [Bees are my big problem.] Entomologists feel free to
> argue:)
>
> M.
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