Yeeeees. I am completely fine with Bones grousing.
I'm going with the kinda Word-of-God idea that the black stuff transforming Wikus is nanotech that's meant to repair things and is basically 'repairing' Wikus into a Prawn from the genetic level up. (It's also kinda Word-of-God that the Prawns might be from another galaxy, and can apparently make a round trip of that distance in 3 years. So sufficiently advanced tech to reasonably give Star Trek-level tech a challenge!).
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I'm going with the kinda Word-of-God idea that the black stuff transforming Wikus is nanotech that's meant to repair things and is basically 'repairing' Wikus into a Prawn from the genetic level up. (It's also kinda Word-of-God that the Prawns might be from another galaxy, and can apparently make a round trip of that distance in 3 years. So sufficiently advanced tech to reasonably give Star Trek-level tech a challenge!).