Let Lambert be...

It's about time that the many detractors of Lambert rightfully spend a moment thinking about some of her contributions to the film. Though some of you might think that there were no deep thoughts in Alien, it's an artform and being subjective creates different reactions in different people. Lambert was a navigator on a spacecraft, so she obviously had more skills than just pushing buttons. She also knew about checks and balances. That weight equates mass which requires energy to push around the universe. She was the only one that had any trepidation about entering the Derelict. She wanted to "Get the hell out of here." Next stop bashing her for asking, "What happened to the rest of the crew?" Why would she not ask that question. The Derelict itself was an enormous vessel and to think that the SJ's race would grow/construct such a monstrous ship at a staggering expense for a lone occupant is rather presumptuous. Space is vast and isolation has detrimental effects on the psyche of most life forms. Unless you want to take the stance that they are an antisocial species that does not prefer the company of their own kind in potentially hazardous situations. Further arrogance is that any being would require a ship that capacious just to tote some eggs around the universe. The energy requirements even supposing that the [i]M Theory [i] (which is not a propulsion means it's merely an expanded set of mathematical theories concerning 11 coexisting dimensions sharing the same space) would be staggering even utilizing pseudo science to explain how that ship gets around. Now before you lambast me let me drop some credentials on you like Snorkelbottom did. I may not be a Staff member, or one of the theoretical contributers to this site but I work for NIAC in Atlanta. This is the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. Some of the ideas that are kicked around would sound like science fiction, but in perhaps another century they might become common place. The shape of the Derelict itself is interesting in that it has no external vectored thrust ports. If I had to come up with a means of propulsion for it I would say that it's utilizing a depleted energy vacuole, and the prongs are projectors for the manipulation of stabilized dark matter which in effect would constrict the fabric of space around the vessel and literally expand the ship through space. This is also known as a Alcubierre drive. Now getting back on point, I have always considered the alternative outcomes of points in a film, or story. There is always a story behind the dialogue and I merely am looking at the situation the way she might have. I'll also look at Prometheus through the eyes of it's various characters and until I've seen the film in it's entirety anything I say would only be conjecture.