Alien (franchise) "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
Alien invasion Anderson]]'s "[[The High Crusade]]", an alien ship lands at a Medieval English village, but the overconfident would-be conquerors find out the hard way that they are not immune to swords and arrows; the humans take over the ship and proceed to carve out an empire among the stars, but lose contact with Earth which goes on with its familiar history. In "[[Eifelheim (novel)|Eifelheim]]" by [[Michael Flynn (author)|Michael Flynn]], an alien spaceship lands in central Europe in the middle of the [[Black Death]]. In "Doctor Who", because of the time travel element, historical invasions happen a lot, notably the [[Cyberman]] invasion