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IMO if Alien 2 didn't go in the full-on action movie direction but rather dealt with the second discovery of the Derelict - a proper in-depth scientific mission to get as much alien tech as possible, without going down into the egg chamber, and maybe even discovering where the xeno that came out of the Space Jockey (it does have a big ole hole in its chest!), this would've been a great addition.

Think of it like Prometheus but instead of the installation you get the horror of the Derelict.

IMO it's still a potential movie possibility as the lore does state another ship finds the Derelict and turns off the beacon (which is why the settlers in Alien 2 don't find it on their own and only once Ripley tells WY the location do they go there to be infected). Have those people - hell, make them archaeologists of the worst kind, essentially grave robbers on a pirate ship, to explain why their disappearance is never really brought up - discover the Derelict a bit in-depth to add to the horror that the Space Jockey/Engineer race knew about the xenos, glorified them and the death they caused, self-sacrificed etc., maybe even throw in how this ship was actually targeting Earth (or some other known populated planet), and only due to the pilot being accidentally infected did it land where it did (maybe the same infection that wiped out LV-223, tying this nicely to Prometheus?).

Bam, you got a banger Alien movie. And at the end, the entire pirate-graverobber ship is directed into the sun when the crew realises they can't overcome the xeno they accidentally brought onboard (maybe it's the xeno that hatched from the Space Jockey, and it keeps infecting the crew one by one, or ovomorphing them even?). 2.5-3hrs, first half the discovery of the ship, without going down the hole, to the crew, seemingly meaningless wall decorations and holo recordings that to us, viewers, tell a lot, lore-wise.

Fuck, I should call Ridley Scott.