Two derelicts?

I would also add that Alien may be 33 years old as a screenplay, but it is timeless in its story and nothing can compare. It's still the first movie I think of when theres nothing else to watch.. has anyone ever noticed the scene with lambert and parker going to collect coolant and the alien is there, seen, even before they get to the coolant locker?

@jbsmit3@gmail.com HEAR HEAR. I hate lazy storytelling like that. And there definitely is 2 ships, is everyone forgetting the one you see above the waterfall? The giant saucer shaped one? No?....... :-D

@jbsmit3, I have to agree as well about the time travel. Is time travel okay in films? Sure. But is time travel acceptable in this particular film? No, I don't think so. It's used as a framework to help human beings understand what is happening in their miniscule little human minds. But unlike a lot of films, I wouldn't have a problem with certain things in Prometheus being completely incomprehensible--that's kind of the point of coming into contact with truly alien life. We shouldn't be able to go all "CSI" on their technology, writing, language, etc., and expect to learn much of anything from it. (Unless it's David, but even that is a stretch.) The only way I would accept time travel in Prometheus is if it's a technology used solely by the Space Jockeys, and in a way that does not directly involve the Prometheus crew. So I would have a big problem with the Prometheus crew being transported back in time with a Space Jockey ship and somehow causing it to crash, thus leading to a "fossilized" Jockey derelict being discovered in Alien and theorized (and actually true) to be millions of years old. Besides, let's suppose Space Jockeys are capable of more than "mere" time travel. What about inter-dimensional travel? Is a human being even capable of surviving in a higher dimension? We are complex meatbags, but at the end of the day, just meatbags. Maybe I'm going off in the wrong direction...