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 Red and the Black (The X-Files) The alien ship's lights were created with a lighting rig augmented by computer effects. The crashed alien spacecraft was sixty feet in diametertwice the length of any other spaceship seen before on the showand was forcibly dragged across the ground to create a deep gash in the earth. Twenty-five explosions were set off to simulate the saucer crash; the remains of the wreckage were then burned and filmed. The scene took a full night of production to shoot. The opening scene featuring the alien rebels incinerating a group of Russian abductees was filmed without actual Russian cars. Picture car coordination