They're like big ol' spiders, who embrace you, admire you, suck out your juices, eat your innards, and honor your memory with a huge belch.

    Isn't that what Freds do, after having stunned their victims with the theme song from Freinds? I think it's all a big front, and the bad acting is a cover for their non human origins.
    That would make anything with Shatner in it a really clever cover. It makes the idea of aliens seem so ridiculous that nobody notices. After all who could take a group that can be defeated with either a right hook, or a manly embrace seriously....