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Originally Posted by mloutch
I think two things that need to be mentioned is that based on the original screenplay and novelization:
1) The space jockey was there for a very very long (thousands? Hundreds of thousands years?) time and the "reason" he/she/it seems to be part of the chair is that its been pretty much fossilized to the chair
2) That all the eggs seen in the "cargo" hold of the derelict ship are the fellow crew members of the space jockey - remember before Cameron got a hold of the franchise and made "starship troopers" out of it the Aliens are created by the victims being converted into the eggs by some form of DNA manipulation - of course thats after the Alien gets to eat a little bit first. The famous cut scene from Alien when Ripley gets lost and stumbles into the bowels of the Nostromo and finds Dallas halfway to being an "egg" and another almost fully formed egg is seen with whats left of Brett inside being changed.
In fact Dan O'Bannon was miffed in 79 when this was cut from the film and the whole Queen aspect a few yrs later as it took a really disturbing and creepy angle out of play. I would think and hope a revisit using the original point of the Alien having the ability to transform other lifeforms into its own and what happened to the derelict crew could make an awesome feature
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Very good points, although I'm not so sure. To me it seemed that the cocoon like eggs were more of an emergency attempt by the Alien to survive, because weren't the contents of them fully fledged xenomorphs and not facehuggers? The ones on the derelict ship were far too small to be from the cocoon like ones, expecially with the size of the space jockey. Unless they simply shrivel over time...
another point to note, V, is that it seems Weland-Yutani did have prior knowledge of the Aliens, hence why they sent the crew to answer the distress signal. Isn't it possible they've known about them since AVP:R but have simply never had the opportunity to get any before?