# Alien: Earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [August 13, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996 "2025-08-13T04:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/401 "2025-10-04T14:13:37Z")
That would be a really interesting plot development. No notes. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/402 "2025-10-04T14:49:19Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > If we weren’t told he was a genius a dozen times, would we have any idea that he was even smart? Well, we don’t actually see him create a brand new technology that would revolutionize the entire human race, but the entire plot of the show is based around it. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/403 "2025-10-04T15:58:11Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I don’t get that impression of him at all. Nothing about him says chaos. He’s a Narcissist who thinks he is always the smartest guy in the room. One of the background articles Morrow dug up was about how, when he was 16, he badly crashed his e-bike he insisted on driving himself despite already having made a name for himself in AI, including self-driving AI specifically meant to avoid that sort of thing. > [@Omniscient](#): > > After Alien Earth, that pretty much goes out the window, and we’re left with 2 possible ideas. Either W-Y knows exactly what’s going on on LV-426 and they know Ripley’s story is true and are gaslighting her. Or the knowledge is lost somehow in the intervening 57 years and all but the most clued in people at the upper echelons of W-Y know anything. In which case these execs and managers are just as ignorant as she is. There is something wrong with the continuity, but about LV-426 specifically, how would they know, before the _Nostromo_ even launched, anything about it? The Space Jockey might not have even crashed there yet. The _Maginot_ travelled an order of magnitude longer and farther to collect their specimens; is there any indication they went anywhere near Zeta Reticuli? ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/404 "2025-10-04T17:49:42Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > The _Maginot_ travelled an order of magnitude longer and farther to collect their specimens; is there any indication they went anywhere near Zeta Reticuli? They didn’t necessarily have to. Remember, the eggs didn’t originate on LV-426, they were brought there in a ship. So the Maginot could have found another source of eggs on a totally different planet. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/405 "2025-10-04T21:01:35Z")
Probably not though because it’s a Plot point in Alien that the Company wakes the crew of the Nostromo to check the planet out. WY knew some was there and used the Nostromo to get it. Part of what this prequel does is show how the company knew. So I think it’s implied the eggs came from LV-426. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/406 "2025-10-04T21:17:54Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > They didn’t necessarily have to. Remember, the eggs didn’t originate on LV-426, they were brought there in a ship. So the Maginot could have found another source of eggs on a totally different planet. I am suggesting exactly this. > [@Quimby](#): > > Probably not though because it’s a Plot point in Alien that the Company wakes the crew of the Nostromo to check the planet out. WY knew some was there and used the Nostromo to get it. They check the planet out because they receive a distress call. W–Y seem to have known, or strongly suspected, xenos were involved, though: > [@](#): > > ``` > DALLAS > Some of you may have figured > out that we're not home. > > BRETT > What the hell. > > DALLAS > Mother's interrupted the course > of the voyage. > Mother is programmed to interrupt > the course of out voyage if > certain conditions arise. They > have... > (pause) > We've received intermittent > transmission from quadrant points > QBR 157, 052. Somebody's gone > down. > > BRETT > So what. > > KANE > We're obligated under Section B2... > > PARKER > Christ. We're a commerical ship > not some rescue team. This kind > of duty's not in our contract. > > ASH > You better read your contract. > Transmissions received in non- > commercial lanes... > > ``` > > Dallas gives Parker and Brett a look. > > ``` > DALLAS > We're going in, that's it. > > ``` > > […] > > ``` > ASH > Special Order 937 in essence > asked me to direct the ship to > the planet, investigate a life > form, possibly hostile and bring > it back for observation. With > discretion, of course. > > RIPLEY > Why. Why not tell us. > > ASH > Would you have gone. > > PARKER > It wasn't in the contract. > > ASH > My very point. > > RIPLEY > They wanted to investigate the > Alien. No matter what happened > to us. > > ASH > That's unfair. Actually, you > weren't mentioned in the order. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/407 "2025-10-04T21:34:03Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > There is something wrong with the continuity, but about LV-426 specifically, how would they know, before the _Nostromo_ even launched, anything about it? It was cited upthread that the Maginot explicitly recovered their eggs from LV-426. I forget where that I was communicated. I started with the same rationalization, but it appears that this show is saying that W-Y and Prodigy both know about LV-426 and the Xeno eggs in 2120, 2 years before W-Y reroutes the Nostromo. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/408 "2025-10-04T21:37:09Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > It was cited upthread that the Maginot explicitly recovered their eggs from LV-426. Actually, they just said from a moon. And LV-426 is a moon. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/409 "2025-10-04T21:41:15Z")
I saw on a TT breakdown the same thing. Supposedly there was some supporting content outside the show that confirms it. Haven’t seen it directly but the creator has interviewed the cast and showrunner on his show and seems like he’s reliable on the topic. Will see if I can find it. Found the comment: > @MovieDeathBlow: They released this teaser earlier in the summer with the cat walking around and it says it in there on this blurry screen you see LV426 Assuming this is reliable, it seems canon that LV-426 is the source of all the eggs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996.md?page=20)