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
The Voyage of the Space Beagle The Voyage of the Space Beagle The Voyage of the Space Beagle (1950) is a science fiction (SF) novel by A. E. van Vogt in the space opera subgenre. The novel is a "fix-up" compilation of four previously published SF stories: The book was republished in 1952 under the title "Mission: Interplanetary". A huge globular spaceship, manned by a chemically castrated all-male crew of nearly a thousand, who are on an extended scientific mission to explore intergalactic space, encounters several, mostly hostile, aliens and alien civilizations. On board the spaceship during its journey, both political and scientific revolutions take place.