In 1979, Tom Skerrit, Sigourney Weaver, and Veronica Cartright stared in Alien, a film that depicts a much different future than the one Gene Roddenberry describes in Star Trek.
The Nostromo, a mining ship owned by an organization known only as “The Company” lands on an alien world to investigate an apparent SOS. The crew finds an enormous ship with the remains of a long-dead alien being who was enormous in size along with a collection of curious looking spherical objects. One of these spheres opens and a creature which looks like a cross between a disembodied pair of hands and a star fish attaches itself to one crewmember’s face, rendering the crew member unconscious.
A couple of days later, the creature comes off the mans face, apparently dead, and the crew member awakens. Several hours later, the man is killed when a small alien creature (pictured, in it’s adult form) bursts through his ribcage and finds somewhere to hide before it can be captured.
It is soon discovered that this creature has acidic blood that can eat through the deckplates down several levels. One by one the entire crew, except one – Ellen Ripley – is killed. Before his demise, Science Officer Ash is discovered to be an android who was under orders to capture one of these aliens at any cost – including the death of the crew.
Ripley starts the ship’s self destruct sequence and gets away at the last possible second in an escape pod’s cryogenic sleep pod.
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