INDEX TO Alien Faq Part 1

CONTENTS

• Part 1:
• Part 2:
• Part 3:
• Part 4:

1. MOVIE SYNOPSIS

• _ALIEN_
• _ALIENS_
• _ALIENS SPECIAL EDITION_
• _ALIEN^3_ (Standard version, not the above widescreen version)
• _ALIEN^3_

• Eggs
• Face-huggers
• Chest-burster
• Alien
• The Queen Alien

• _ALIEN_
• _ALIENS_
• _ALIEN^3_

• _ALIEN_
• _ALIENS_
• _ALIEN^3_

• _ALIEN_
• _ALIENS_
• _ALIEN^3_
• Alien Trilogy Collectors Set

• _BOOKS_
• _COMICS_
• _MAGAZINES & ARTICLES_
• _CLOTH PATCHES_ _IRON ONS_
• _PUZZLES (all from HG Toys)_
• _BUTTONS AND PINS_
• _POSTERS AND PROMO ITEMS_
• _CARDS_
• _MODELS_
• _UNCONFIRMED MODEL KITS_
• _AUDIO ITEMS_
• _MISC ITEMS_
• _T-SHIRTS_
• _TOYS AND GAMES_

INDEX TO Alien Faq Part 2

7. MEMORABLE QUOTES

• _ALIEN_
• _ALIENS_
• _ALIEN^3_

• _ALIEN_
• _ALIENS_
• _ALIEN^3_

• _ALIEN_
• Other trivia
• _ALIENS_
• _ALIEN^3_

• _ALIENS_
• _ALIEN^3_

• _ALIEN_
• Q: Is there a fan club I can join?
• Q: What is the "Narcissus" ?
• Q: Who is the "Space Jockey"?
• Q: What is written on Brett's cap?
• Q: Why is there a "self-destruct button" on the Nostromo?
• Q: The crew is awakened early out of their hypersleep to explore the
• planet from which the beacon is being transmitted, HOW early are they
• awakened?
• Q: Did the entire crew go down to the surface of LV-426?
• Q: After the Nostromo blew up, and Ripley discovers that the alien is
• on board the escape capsule, why does the alien take SO long to attack
• her?
• Q: Does the alien have eyes? How does it see?
• Q: How could I get a longer version of _ALIEN_ ?
• Q: I recall seeing extra scenes in the movie when I saw it in the
• theaters, am I imagining things?
• Q: When the crew first sets out to search the ship for the alien:
• * Ash has made a "detection" units (motion tracker)
• * Ripley asks "how do they work?"
• * Ash VERY hesitantly replies "micro changes in air density"
• * when searching, Ripley detects something on the OTHER side of an
• airtight door (after all, they ARE in a spaceship) which turns out
• to be Jones.
• * Ripley makes the comment "micro changes in air density my ass"
• This point never gets raised again in the film, what is its significance?
• Q: How come Ripley managed to survive in the shuttle without the coolant
• that Lambert and Parker were collecting?
• Q: When the remaining crew discusses Brett's death, what does Ash say?
• _ALIENS_
• Q: What does "Sulaco" mean?
• Q: Is LV-426 also called "Acheron" ?
• Q: What IS the name of the company?
• Q: What is the name of the colony?
• Q: Why don't the colonists on LV-426 pick up the derelict SOS?
• Q: How did the colony get infected?
• Q: Is Ferro's first name "Mira" ?
• Q: How many colonists are there?
• Q: How many aliens where on LV-426 when the marines arrived?
• Q: Why did Ripley risk life and limb to save Newt, but didn't give a
• second thought to Dietrich and Apone?
• Q: How can Ripley hang on during violent vacuum decompression while the
• much stronger alien queen can't?!
• Q: Why does Ripley attempt to climb out of the pit after the queen has
• been "vacuumed" out of the Sulaco? Why doesn't she just close the
• doors?
• Q: Why doesn't anyone stay on board the Sulaco?
• Q: How has Newt survived all this time? The aliens seem to have no
• problem getting around in the air ducts?
• Q: How does the queen know how to use an elevator, and how does she
• know what floor to get off at?
• Q: Are those power-loaders real?
• _ALIEN^3_
• Q: Why did it take so long for the chestburster to come out of Ripley?
• It only took a few hours for it to come out of Kane in _ALIEN_. Even
• though Ripley was carrying a queen, the chestburster itself was STILL
• the same size as the one that came out of Kane.
• Q: Why is that bloody autopsy necessary?
• Q: What is the "dreaded" seven-dwarf concept for the _ALIEN^3_ script?
• Q: How did the face-huggers get on the Sulaco?
• Q: Did the little face-hugger critter actually do so much damage to
• the Sulaco that the ship decided to EJECT the hypersleep capsules?
• Q: I remember seeing a trailer for _ALIEN^3_ that was really different
• than the movie?
• Q: There's a prison planet: is anyone really going to spend money on
• hideously expensive space travel in order to send these guys to some
• far-off solar system?
• _ALIEN4_
• Q: Will there be an Alien4?
• Q: Is there an Alien vs Predator script, and if so, will it be filmed?
• _OTHER_
• Q: Can aliens stay alive in space?
• Q: Where can I get Gibson's _ALIEN^3_ script?
• Q: What is "ALIEN WAR" ?
• Q: What is the 'Aliens: Ride at the Speed of Fright'?

INDEX TO Alien Faq Part 3

12. FREQUENTLY DISCUSSED TOPICS

• * After the Nostromo blew up, and Ripley discovers that the alien is
• * on board the escape capsule, why does the alien take SO long to attack
• * her?
• * In _ALIEN_, how does the company know about the aliens anyway, and how
• * much do they know, and why don't they send a well trained scientific
• * "collection" team ?
• * Near the beginning of _ALIENS_ when Ripley is at the inquiry, one of the
• * company executives at the table estimates the value of the Nostromo at
• * "42 million in adjusted dollars". Surely a ship as large as the Nostromo
• * is worth more than 42 million ?
• * In the 57 years between _ALIEN_ and _ALIENS_, why don't they try again
• * to get some alien eggs?
• * Are we really to believe that, having lost contact with an entire colony,
• * the Colonial Marines send a warship out with only ONE SQUADRON of soldiers?
• * Theories regarding the derelict space craft and its fossilized pilot (from
• * the movie _ALIEN_).
• * Was the derelict ship destroyed at the end of Aliens?
• * Alien intelligence. Although they have a large cranium, can they really
• * "think"?
• * What does the alien use for energy, does it eat? if so what?
• * What are those long, dark "spines" sticking out of the back of the alien?
• * Do the aliens use their host's DNA to help them adapt to their host's
• * environment?
• * Is there a notion of "soldier" and "worker" aliens?
• * Where do the aliens come from, were they genetically engineered?
• * Why are the aliens in _ALIENS_ different from the alien in _ALIEN_?
• * Why is the alien in _ALIEN^3_ different than the other aliens we've seen?
• * In Alien3, how did the eggs get on the Sulaco?
• * In ALIEN^3: Was the human Bishop (that appeared at the end of the movie)
• * really human or was he also an android?
• * ALIEN^3 was a bad movie.
• * Alien^3 was a dream.
• * Bishop (from Aliens) was a traitor, like Bishop II (Alien3).
• * What options are there for Alien4?

INDEX TO Alien Faq Part 4

14. MOVIE WATCHING RITUALS

15. MUSIC

• "Alien"
• "Aliens"
• "Alien 3"

17. SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE ALIEN SPECIES

• Discussion of observed characteristics:
• Homeworld speculation:
• Hypothetical ancestors:
• Hypothetical ancestors and habitats:
• The development of sociality:
• Host Mediated Adaptation:
• Sensation:
• Communication:
• The modern and ancestral natural hosts:
• Proposed ancestral types:
• Appendix A: Spore theory of Reproduction
• Disclaimer: