So the best earthly specimen, the planet over, that could possibly be fielded, which all nations would just swoon to agree to, would be some poorly set up super-genius, though quite humble Ph.D. super-astrophysicist, or whatever background she's suppose to have, which she prodigiously got when she was just starting to get her period. UNBELIEVABLY STUPID AND UNREALISTIC.

And then James Woods as head of a crack super-commando, sub-machine equipped, NSA firesquad team, who, when push comes to shove and tensions get hot, supposedly with something so momentous, and uncertain, as alien contact, gives ground and allows Miss Youthful Supergenius to command his team and the entire operation?!?!

If 1 said this were a poorly cast & directed propaganda piece with egregiously affected and phony performances, that would be a step up for it.