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Mothership Zeta is perhaps the worst, err... least good DLC of Fallout 3, but I think it could have been a little better, or at least more enjoyable, with just with one thing changed.
See, after the aliens abduct you, they have you on a table, stick a scientastic diode into you, and then you black out.
That's that. Nothing bad or good came out of it. You wake up in a cell and are as fit as ever. Then you break out really easily, and can promptly retrieve all of your confiscated gear in the next room. Could have been perhaps more fun if you had to make by with only the stuff you can find aboard the ship? There's peltny of alienw eaponry,a fter all...
But that's not the point I'm about to make. No.
The point is, the alien operation was there for the shock value and the to demonstrate the evilness of the aliens or something. It was so inconsqeuential, msot people I wager forgot it after a few minutes.

But what if the aliens did some real, tangible things to you that negatively affects your character?
What if your SPECIAL stats were halved? What if your highest SPECIAL stat was brought to its absolute lowest? Or they put you into the body of a super mutant? Or flipped your sex?
Point is, the aliens should have done something that you actually can feel upset about. If your character's intelligence was dropped to 1, or your beefcake bruiser was turned into a noodle-armed ninny, you'd want that undone, yes?

The real challenge of Mothership Zeta should have been the overcoming and compensating for the "downgrades" the aliens bestowed on you, with the end goal of being the restoration of your normal condition, and in the process, you enact some righteus vengeance on the aliens!