Ramming or trying to Escape

Could be Humans flying both ships ... or even 'an' Android in the Derelict ...

finster, i know this exposes me as a huge ass for saying so but i would not sacrifice myself to save earth. its not a matter of self importance, but the fact that i am a pessimist and would have a hard time being convinced our planet would be worth saving. maybe i am a synthetic after all ^_^

I think, am pretty sure actually that a ship like The Prometheus can be set up for "ramming", while at the same time in a way that this adaptation protects rather than endangers the life of the crew!!! Just sayin'. Yes Alien happened 33+ years ago but it took place in a universe set around 200 years into our future.

sparty, u mean like decent police cars? in better funded areas i have lived in we had some kick ass police cars that had a nice grill that was made for a specific ramming move that stopped other vehicles in high speed chases. the cop cars werent anything outstanding themselves but the proper legal modifications and pure technique made an old ass car a police officer battering ram deathrace2000 combatant!

about trailer continuity: what about the crew lands on the planet, finds the temple and signs that the SJs are hostile and prepare to eradicate earth. the prometheus is being crashed into the ship to prevent that, so the crew goes back to the now stranded derelict ship, hoping to restore it for flight. david in the navigation room, messing around with the technology (hence the dead SJs on the floor, died during the crash – david reactivating the ship and takes place of the beings). the others inspect the ship meanwhile, come across some organism that infects holloway etc – david's reactivation goes wrong, the ship moves but due to lack of integrity / energy it kinda rolls down the hill, ms vickers and a now pregnant shaw flee from it. david remains in the ship, others are maybe back in the prometheus wreck to figure out what to do and the whole movie goes to hell with shaw giving birth, holloway transforming bla bla… I KNOW this outline has several problems in it, especially when it comes to the scenes aboard the prometheus, but what I want to express is that the trailer story could be a clever re-write of the true timeline to obscure the plot. because, if you take the trailer for real, you'd get a pretty nice plot already which I think is not the goal of the scott and the lindelof. ;-)

To assume that the SJ space that takes off, the SJ ships that has an explosion near it, and SJ ship hitting the ground, and the SJ ship that Promo rams are all the same may not be correct from the trailers. Seems sort of odd that Promo is sent by the Weyland Corp across space to possibly a hostile world without advanced defenses (or offensive weapons) such as air-to-air missiles and has to resort to ramming. Maybe Promo does fire weapons and takes out or damages a few SJ ships, but needs to ram one remaining ship?