I know this topic has been done many, many times over the years, but my personal take was that the queen, despite detaching from the egg ovipositor, had a single final egg that was gestating inside of her, which due to all the movement and intensity of the escape on board the dropship, was laid in the landing gear where the queen was hiding once it was "jiggled loose" or what have you - her final egg. That it would be a queen facehugger would make even more sense in that context.

I just spitballed this idea in 5 minutes tonight after re-watching the Bishop scene from Alien 3. I can't believe that this wasn't the obvious exposition that they went for instead of just saying "yes there was an alien onboard". I'm genuinely surprised that they couldn't figure out this same idea, or a very similar one. Was that ever presented in previous drafts of the script? I know Rex Pickett once said some insane shit once time about Bishop raping Ripley and his sperm being infected, but that's the only other one I know.

Now I've always loved xenomorphs and everything about them, but what bothers me is how people exaggerat the xenomorph taking on traits from their hosts. I've always felt hesitant with this as I feel people exaggerat it way to much when I feel It should be treated how it was in alien 3, where the runner alien only became more aggressive and agile as well as becoming a quadrupled xenomorph. I still love xenomorphs and they're biology but with them gaining traits from their hosts to a exaggerated lever bothers me as I also feel it shouldn't be traits from each animal but from animals that are similar. An example being quadrupeds produce runners and any aquatic life produces a aquaticmorph that isn't exaggerated but looks similar to a drone with aquatic features.

I just read the 1953 short story "Junkyard" by Clifford D. Simak, which inspired the derelict ship.

When it came to influences for Alien, Dan O' Bannon happily said that "I didn't steal from anybody, I stole from everybody."

Which leads me to wonder how many times someone pointed out an element that he borrowed from some old science fiction short story, and O' Bannon just said "Sure, that sounds about right. I forgot the name of the story I stole that part from, but that's probably it."

In Prometheus, at 8 minutes and 0 seconds, the text says that they are 3.27 x 10^14 kilometers from earth. That's 34.56 light years. When Vickers is doing push-ups outside her cryopod, David tells her at 13 minutes and 18 seconds that it has been 2 years, 4 months, and 18 days. That's 2.3826 years. So they covered 34.56 light years in 2.3826 years. That means they were going 14.51 times the speed of light. That would be the best available tech as of 2.3826 years before December 21, 2093, which is the date shown at the 8-minute mark. Best available tech because that's Peter Weyland's ship, so it stands to reason they used the best, newest FTL tech that they could because he was close to death and so needed to get there as fast as possible. I have not accounted for time dilation or whatever other hard scifi gobbledygook that complicates the problem.

Recently watched Alien Covenant again and couldn't help but notice after the alien is crushed, David disguised as Walter patches up the crew mate the crew member asks "how is it?" And David replies "It's fine" He looks ever so slightly pissed off and struggles to contain his anger at his creature being crushed. Walter throughout the entire film never shows even the slightest emotion, that little flicker of emotion I wonder if it was intentional.

Spirit Halloween Xeno ready for the season! We plan on keeping him as a permanent fixture on our porch and decorating him throughout the year.

Location: Alaska

It was supposed to be a stocking stuffer for Christmas, but I left it out and it was seen.

I'm still taking it and saving it for Christmas, but will share with you all now 😎

Just finished 3D printing this!
In the depth of cold space, facing whatever horror lurks in the dark, your communication device will remain safe within the skeletal grip of this alien throne.
Inspired by the dark, biomechanical art of H.R. Giger and classic sci-fi lore, this phone stand is crafted from intricate weaves of bone, vertebrae, and organic conduits.
It serves not only as a fully functional desk accessory but also as a striking display piece for sci-fi fans and collectors.

Printed it using a 0.4mm nozzle on 0.20mm layer, on Biqu Orange Frostbite plate with Bambulab Carbon Black matte PLA on X2D.

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Figured yall would appreciate this its awesome and I love it