From: dmf@aber.ac.uk (Darren Michael Forbes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Do the Aliens come from EARTH?
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:19:39 GMT
Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth

In article <rabjab.14.0@golem.ucsd.edu> rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (Jeff Bytof) writes:
>>> I think a good case can be made that long before the crew of 
>>> the Nostrono made contact with the derelict ship on LV-426, the 
>>> Company developed the Alien species and infected another civilization's 
>>> home planet.  

   I'm sorry but I don't see how any case can be made at all.  I can't
see _any_ evidence for this whatsoever.

>
>>Sorry, but that's pure nonsense.  It explicitly contradicts Ash's
>>mission, Mothers misleading informations plus the fact that the
>>Nostromo was sent (yes, sent; perhaps you should watch Alien again) to
>>LV 426 at all.  It also completely contradicts the Company's handling
>>of LV 426 in Aliens.
>
>During Ripley's debriefing, the Company never stated that it had
>sent the Nostromo to LV-426 to investigate a signal.  But because we know it 
>WAS sent -the decision to place Ash aboard was a result of "the network" or
>other agency picking up the signal before the Nostromo was dispatched.
>The Nostromo was probably viewed as a "ship of opportunity" that
>would pass by the area in transit, so as not to arouse suspicion by
>whatever overseers the Company had to contend with (ICS?).  We can
>infer that the Company had interpreted the signal as a warning, perhaps
>to a greater level of detail than Ripley had time to do.  How much
>detail did the signal contain?  Did it completely describe the Alien?
>I would have thought that the discovery of an intelligent life 
>form broadcasting anything - even a warning -
>would have been extensively publicized - that a SETI program 
>of sorts would have been contacted.  Instead the Company decides to keep
>the whole matter a total secret from science.
   ^^^^^ Because it wants the alien for itself.
>
>My belief is that even the explaination we are given - getting the
>Alien for the bioweapons division - is part truth: they are 
>retrieving the weapon to examine it.  It may have been genetically
>programmed with a capability to alter its genetic makeup to suit the
>host - something hinted at in Alien^3.  The Company may have been 
>surprised that a ship from the other civilization had left home base,
>and was curious to see why.  Was it enroute to Earth for a counter-attack,
>assuming they figured out was  Earth that screwed them?

^^^ But why is there no mention of contact with other spicies in _Alien_?
>
>Because the Company had done the dirty deed, they could not visit the
>actual scene of the crime (the home planet of the other race) for
                            ^^^ What other race?
>a long time.  The Nostromo was a convenient probe to use to check on
 ^^^^^^^^ WHY?
>a minor deviation from the Company's plan without getting much
>attention.

   Except that the crashed ship of LV-426 had been there for a long,
long time.
   Your story isn't even hinted at in _Alien_ or _Aliens_ (can't
comment on _Alien^3_ yet).  There is no hint of contact with another
alien spicies in _Alien_ before the encounter on LV-426.

>
>----
>Jeff Bytof
>rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu


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