"""everything wrong"" with his script. On its way back to Earth, the U.S. commercial spaceship ""Nostromo"" is diverted to a desolate planetoid by a cryptic signal from a derelict alien spacecraft. While exploring the alien ship, one of the ""Nostromo""s crewmen discovers the remains of the ship's pilot and also a large chamber that contains thousands of egg-like objects. One of the eggs releases a creature that attaches itself to his face and renders him unconscious. The others break quarantine to bring him back aboard the ship. The parasite dies and the crewman wakes up, seemingly fine. Soon afterwards, an"
"Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) The U.S.S. ""Sulaco"" is a fictional spaceship and important setting in the film ""Aliens"". It also appears briefly in the opening scene of ""Alien 3"", in the """" and """" video games that takes place shortly after the events of ""Alien 3"". The ""Sulaco"" is named after a fictional town in Joseph Conrad's novel ""Nostromo"", which is also the name of the ship from the original ""Alien"". A number of other names in the franchise are based on Conrad's work as well. Some scholarly research into the symbolism of the Alien franchise has considered it significant that"
"Alien (film) Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug ""Nostromo"" who encounter the eponymous Alien, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions, and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Giler and Hill revised and"
"aliens. The pilot featured a single-deck, sub-lightspeed, interstellar, flying saucer spacecraft known as the ""Gemini 12"", which was renamed and redesigned as the ""Jupiter 2"" for the actual series. Unlike the ""Jupiter 2"", the ""Gemini 12"" had no airlock, no seats for the pilot, very few controls at the front of the craft, no elevator, no landing gear, and a crew of only six. The ship did, however, carry a Chariot all-terrain vehicle, and the Jet Pack flying device. The episode portrayed the entire crew as intellectually gifted or accomplished: both John and Maureen Robinson had doctoral degrees, their children"
""""". Several computer games based on the film were released, but not until several years after its theatrical run. Alien (film) Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug ""Nostromo"" who encounter the eponymous Alien, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler and"
"Ash (Alien) Ash is a fictional character in the movie ""Alien"", who was portrayed by actor Ian Holm, who, although known in the U.K. as a stage actor, was at the time unknown to American audiences. Ash serves as an antagonist of the first film. The character is the science officer of the ""Nostromo"", who breaks quarantine by allowing Kane, a member of the crew, back on board after he has been infected by an alien life form. It is later discovered that Ash is not human at all, as he appears, but is in fact a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2"
"Alien Cargo Alien Cargo is a 1999 science fiction film starring Jason London, Missy Crider, Elizabeth Alexander and Alan Dale, as the crew of a space-cargo transport ship, which is attacked by an unknown alien life form that manipulates all organic life into releasing their inner evil psyche. After months of hyper-sleep aboard the cargo transport ship ""Solar System Shipping Vessel No.17"" (SSS-17), two crew members awaken - Christopher 'Chris' McNiel (Jason London) and Theta Kaplan (Missy Crider). They discover that they've been woken from hyper-sleep, by the ship's computer, almost ten months past their scheduled time, as something has"
"aliens. Gearbox Software meticulously created the entire spaceship room-by-room. The ship has also been built as a scale model by enthusiasts, toy company Aoshima Bunka Kyozai, and model maker Halcyon, with some more detailed versions also produced by small-series/individual commission modelling companies. Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) The U.S.S. ""Sulaco"" is a fictional spaceship and important setting in the film ""Aliens"". It also appears briefly in the opening scene of ""Alien 3"", in the """" and """" video games that takes place shortly after the events of ""Alien 3"". The ""Sulaco"" is named after a fictional town in Joseph Conrad's novel ""Nostromo"","
"alien spacecraft, Lind and her crew are caught in the field of the ship's inertialess drive, causing them to travel farther and faster than expected, and beyond their capacity to return to Earth. Realising their predicament, the crew decide to land on the moon and attempt to survive the flight out of the solar system, wherever it may take them. Eventually it becomes apparent that the ship is heading towards Spica, a close binary pair in the constellation of Virgo. At one point before the landing, Bella's closest friend and subordinate, Svetlana Barseghian, pushes for Bella to turn the ship"
"1989 until the rides closure in 2017. An ""Alien""-based attraction at the Magic Kingdom entered early development stages before being reworked into ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. The Alien has a brief cameo in an episode of ""Zig and Sharko"". Alien (creature in Alien franchise) The ""Alien"" (colloquial: ""Xenomorph XX121""; binomial: ""Internecivus raptus [""murderous thief""]"") is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the eponymous antagonist of the ""Alien"" film series. The species made its debut in the film ""Alien"" (1979) and reappeared in the sequels ""Aliens"" (1986), ""Alien 3"" (1992), and ""Alien Resurrection"" (1997), as well as the crossover films ""Alien"
"an Alien the player must defend the Alien hive from human marines, then stow away on an evacuating spacecraft and reach the marines' ship, the ""Ferarco"". When the ""Ferarco""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s self-destruct system is activated, the player must reach the escape shuttle, which takes them to Gateway Station. Here the player explores the station and battles more marines, reaching a ship departing for Earth. Before boarding the ship the player battles two Predators, after which the Alien enters the Earth-bound shuttle. When playing as the Colonial Marine, the player begins at a research station on LV-426 built to study the derelict spacecraft"
"Alien (1984 video game) Alien is a hybrid strategy/adventure video game developed by Concept Software and published by Argus Press Software for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1984, and later ported for the Amstrad CPC in 1985. It is based on the science fiction horror film ""Alien"". ""Alien"" is an omniscient menu driven game. The player is put in charge of all of the crew members of the ""Nostromo"". The game starts with one of the crew members being killed by the alien, which mirrors the death of Kane when he gives birth to the alien in the"
"ship in the first place. The Entity (comics) The Entity (sometimes called The Entity from the Moon) was a fictional device from Malibu Comics' Ultraverse. It first appeared in ""The Strangers"" #1; its origins were detailed in ""Ultraverse Future Shock"", ""Phoenix: Resurrection"", ""Ultraverse: Year Zero"", and ""Break-Thru"". Four billion years ago, an alien spacecraft exploded in the Solar System. The core of this craft wound up on Earth's Moon, while the main body of the vessel crashed on Earth. Over time, the ship's self-repair mechanisms began to activate, and organic nanotechnology began to scour the world for missing pieces of"
"Alien (creature in Alien franchise) The ""Alien"" (colloquial: ""Xenomorph XX121""; binomial: ""Internecivus raptus [""murderous thief""]"") is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the eponymous antagonist of the ""Alien"" film series. The species made its debut in the film ""Alien"" (1979) and reappeared in the sequels ""Aliens"" (1986), ""Alien 3"" (1992), and ""Alien Resurrection"" (1997), as well as the crossover films ""Alien vs. Predator"" (2004) and """" (2007). The ""Alien"" design is credited to Swiss surrealist and artist H. R. Giger, originating in a lithograph titled ""Necronom IV"" and refined for the series' first film, ""Alien"". The practical effects for"
"Alien (franchise) Alien is a science-fiction horror media franchise centered on the film series depicting Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) and her battles with an extraterrestrial lifeform, commonly referred to as ""the Alien"". Produced and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the series began with ""Alien"" (1979), directed by Ridley Scott. It was followed by three sequels, ""Aliens"" (1986), ""Alien³"" (1992), and ""Alien Resurrection"" (1997), directed by James Cameron, David Fincher, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, respectively. Scott also directed a prequel series, composed of ""Prometheus"" (2012) and """" (2017). The series has led to numerous books, comics, and video"
"Nostromo SpeedPad n52 The Belkin Nostromo SpeedPad n52 is a USB computer gaming peripheral designed for gamers by Belkin. Nostromo is a unique name, but was also the title of the main starship in the 1979 film Alien. and the 1904 novel ""Nostromo"". It can be considered a keyboard/joystick/mouse hybrid, which allows for a more convenient control method for many video games. In ""extremetech""'s reviewthey point out how the Nostromo SpeedPad n52 was different than its competitors and the standard keyboard. It can also be used outside of games, for example to support cartographic software. It is the followup to"
"Space Battleship Yamato (fictional spacecraft) Space Battleship ""Yamato"" was the title spaceship from the anime series ""Space Battleship Yamato"", designed by Leiji Matsumoto in the 1970s. According to the fictional continuity of the anime series, the spacecraft was built inside the remains of the Japanese battleship ""Yamato"". In the American dub of the series ""Star Blazers"", the spaceship has the same origin, but was renamed the ""Argo"" (after the mythical ship ""Argo"" of Jason and the Argonauts). In Spanish-speaking countries, its name was changed to ""Intrépido"" (""Intrepid""). According to the fictional continuity of the ""Space Battleship Yamato"" anime series, the"
"science-fiction/horror film ""Alien"", as well as ""The Thing"" and """". The film is set in the 23rd century, when companies are now surveying distant planets for mining rights. The Sincam corporation is investigating a relatively new planet and has hired the Saldes (a deep-space cruiser), to shuttle company surveyors to check it out. The employees consist of Jiro Takagi of the Japanese division, Dick Berry of the Australian division, the president's daughter Nancy, Farrah Van Dorothy, Morgan W. Scott, Jimmy, and Dr. Harris Mead, while the crew consists of Captain Mike Hamilton, his subordinates Dular, Walt, and Carolyn, as well"
"Porter, and Vanessa Leeds in ""Robotech"", also referred to as the ""Bridge Bunnies""). The ship was originally a gun destroyer that belonged to a group of aliens called ""The Supervision Army"". After being damaged in a battle against their longtime enemies, ""The Zentradi"", the Supervision Army abandoned the gun destroyer. It wandered through space for some time before crashing on Earth. The alien ship was codenamed Alien Star Ship 1 (ASS-1) upon discovery. The arrival of the ASS-1 provokes the ""U.N. Wars"", since it motivates a movement to unite Earth under a U.N. controlled military government. This war is bloody"
"spacecraft ""Marie Celeste"", found crashed on one of the Commonwealth planets, Far Away. An enigmatic figure, Bradley Johansson, claims the original passenger of the spacecraft is alive, an alien he calls the Starflier. He claims that it is using mind-controlled agents to manipulate events in the Commonwealth, and created the events that led to the discovery of the Primes. He is dismissed as a crazy terrorist by the Commonwealth forces, and his attempts to interfere with the voyage to Dyson Alpha are thwarted. ""Judas Unchained"", the second part of the Commonwealth Saga, picks up where ""Pandora's Star""'s abrupt ending left"
"Alien 3 Alien 3 (stylized as ""A""LIEN³) is a 1992 American science fiction horror film directed by David Fincher and written by David Giler, Walter Hill and Larry Ferguson from a story by Vincent Ward. It stars Sigourney Weaver reprising her role as Ellen Ripley and is the third film installment in the ""Alien"" franchise, preceded by ""Aliens"" (1986) and succeeded by ""Alien Resurrection"" (1997). Set right after the events of ""Aliens"", Ripley and an Alien organism (Tom Woodruff Jr.) are the only survivors of the Colonial Marine spaceship ""Sulaco"" escape pod's crash on a planet housing a penal colony"
"captain of the crew and is Hilda lover. Alien from the Darkness While on a government mission far from civilization, the all-female crew of the spaceship ""Muze"" finds a seemingly lifeless ship, named the ""Zogne"", drifting in space. They investigate and stumble across numerous dead bodies as well as a single survivor — Flair, an innocuous-looking girl, who is diagnosed with amnesia after being found in a sleep chamber. The crew bring the girl back to the ""Muze"" and treat her with sympathy as a medical patient. Computer expert Hikari begins attempting to decrypt the computer records of the ""Zogne"""
"the vessel of an unknown species which participated in the invasion of earth, auxiliary to the Alien Alliance. Mardis was unable to decipher the device's higher code functions, but was able to disable them. And so Mardis submitted the chimeric mainframe with his grant proposal to S.T.A.R. Labs. At the San Jose, California location, due to Mindgame's machinations Charles Ndoki an exchange student from Cameroon is trapped inside a massive linear particle accelerator, similar to that operated by the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. The accelerator activates and apparently disintegrates Ndoki. In actuality the linear particle accelerator triggered Ndoki's metagene."
"dropships, it is noted in other reference material that as a troop carrier, the Sulaco could carry up to 20,000 tons of cargo, with up to eight UD4L Cheyenne dropships and has sufficient life support capabilities for 90 crew and passengers (with up to 2,000 possible in hibernation for short-term trips). After encountering aliens in the colony, only Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), a colonist named Newt (Carrie Henn), Marine Dwayne Hicks (Michael Biehn), and the android Bishop (Lance Henriksen) manage to return to the ship. They also accidentally carry along an alien queen, which Ripley ejects into space during the"
"Aliens (film) Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by Gale Anne Hurd and starring Sigourney Weaver. It is the sequel to the 1979 film ""Alien"" and the second installment in the ""Alien"" franchise. The film follows Weaver's character Ellen Ripley as she returns to the moon where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature, this time accompanied by a unit of space marines. Additional roles are played by Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Jenette Goldstein, William Hope, Al Matthews, and Bill Paxton. Gordon Carroll, David Giler,"
"Alien Express Alien Express (formerly known as Dead Rail) is a 2005 film directed by Turi Meyer and stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Amy Locane, Barry Corbin, and Todd Bridges. The film was released direct-to-video on August 13, 2005 when it was aired on Sci Fi Channel. A new bullet train is speeding passengers to Las Vegas, along with a U.S. Senator from Texas running for president, when a meteorite crashes into a car near the tracks, releasing a tiny creature. The train stops to survey the damage, and the police are called. This stop allows the creature to board the"
"and knowledge on a single starship together with cryogenically preserved members of their race. A single robot, Alien 8, is tasked with keeping the occupants of the vessel alive for the duration of its journey. The ship is launched towards a new solar system and Alien 8 performs his task for thousands of years during the journey. However, as the ship nears its destination, it is attacked and boarded by hostile aliens. The cryogenic life support systems were damaged during the attack and Alien 8 must restore them to an operational status before the ship's automatic thrusting systems manoeuvre it"
"Alien Adventure Alien Adventure is a science fiction/slapstick comedy 3D film in IMAX format released in 1999 by nWave Pictures, written and directed by Ben Stassen. The movie was rated G (or the local equivalent) in most countries. It was the first fully digital feature-length film produced for a large-screen format. The movie begins with an extraterrestrial humanoid species, the Glegoliths, wandering through space in search of a new world. Encountering an unknown planet (which turns out to be Earth), the Glegolith leader (Cyrillus) sends two ""manned"" probes to the surface to determine if it is suitable for colonisation. The"
"Alien (1982 video game) Alien is a video game for the Atari 2600 published by 20th Century Fox in 1982. Based on the 1979 film, ""Alien"" is a maze game. It was the first officially licensed game of the ""Alien"" film series. The player controls a member of the human crew pursued by three aliens in the hallways of a ship. The goal is to destroy the alien eggs laid in the hallways (like the dots in ""Pac-Man""). The player is armed with a flamethrower which can temporarily immobilize the aliens. Additionally, ""pulsars"" (like the power pills in ""Pac-Man"") occasionally"
"where the ""Nostromo"" crew first encountered the Alien eggs in the film ""Alien"" (1979). Aliens attack and the player must fight their way through the research facility, the derelict ship, and an adjoining colony. Next the player explores the atmosphere processing station and shuts down its cooling valves in order to cause an explosion which will wipe out the Aliens. The player character escapes in a drop ship and travels to Odobenus Station in orbit above the planetoid, where they battle more Aliens, Predators, facehuggers, and cybernetically-enhanced Aliens until reaching the spaceship ""Tyrargo"". Aboard the ship the player battles more"
"Alien from the Darkness While on a government mission far from civilization, the all-female crew of the spaceship ""Muze"" finds a seemingly lifeless ship, named the ""Zogne"", drifting in space. They investigate and stumble across numerous dead bodies as well as a single survivor — Flair, an innocuous-looking girl, who is diagnosed with amnesia after being found in a sleep chamber. The crew bring the girl back to the ""Muze"" and treat her with sympathy as a medical patient. Computer expert Hikari begins attempting to decrypt the computer records of the ""Zogne"" to find out what happened to its crew."
"the aliens' experimentation and the key to their future. The ""Artifact"" is a mysterious device connected to the aliens. The Artifact was initially on one of the alien ships flying over Earth on July 2, 1947, but the ship collided with a spy balloon and crashed, and most of its crew died. The Artifact itself was thrown clear of the ship and left half-buried in the ground. It was found and retrieved by Sue, a local woman who was the estranged girlfriend of ambitious Air Force Captain Owen Crawford. Sue, seeing the small scrap of metal had alien writing on"
"heels. She also appeared as the vampire Diamondback in ""Near Dark"" (1987), Officer Meagan Shapiro in ""Lethal Weapon 2"" (1989), Janelle Voight in """" (1991), the science officer in ""Star Trek Generations"" (1994), and an Irish immigrant mother in ""Titanic"" (1997). Goldstein is now the proprietor of the store Jenette Bras, a large-cup bra specialist known for its slogan ""The alphabet starts at 'D'. Jenette Goldstein Jenette Elise Goldstein (born February 4, 1960) is an American actress, best known for her Saturn Award–winning role as Private Vasquez in the 1986 science fiction action film ""Aliens"". Goldstein was born in Los"