I listened to this on a very busy Friday (August) the 1st and I LIKED it. TOTALLY different from what I was expecting.

- Of all the RMT regular actors, Jack Grimes (who in the RMT's "Graven Image" played a San Jose based country music singer named Jody Barnes, or as he pronounced it: "Jody BAHnes") was the one I'd have picked "Least likely to play an alien"...but he didn't do badly.

- I liked the "Navy/Marine" banter. (Anyone remember the Jack Nicholson flick "The last detail"? Sailors and marines can have lots of fun together in social gathering at times.) It appeared Ian Martin did some serious research into what mission control or at least astronauts might say.

- All the actors had an "old time" radio feel about them...for some reason their voices sounded as if they could have been heard on a play 40 years earlier. Can't put my finger on it but it was good.

- This sort of reminded me of an original Star Trek episode called "Arena"...where Captain Kirk met the lizard man.