The gravity alteration could also explain why they walk the way they do. ;) (I tease, but they are kinda cute. I can understand why Carter hugs them so much.)

"Orange on a toothpick" is actually a reference to the movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer". Have you seen it?

K. Steak knife it is. Do you think they bleed some milky blue colour, as most aliens seem to on sci-fi shows?