Stasis technology loophole?
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Ghost Solitare
MemberOvomorphJune 24, 20121714 Views8 RepliesAll I can say is that some of the people on this site needed to be involved in the making of Prometheus, it would have been a film that utterly redefined intelligent science fiction. My question is two fold. First if we accept that STASIS technology suspends cellular decay/metabolism allowing crews and possibly perishables to survive long space, or temporal voyages intact, would it not also pause the gestation of an alien embryonic form in it's host organism? The other sarcophagi in the ship appeared to have holes blown in their covers suggesting that their contents were disturbed by an infestation. This can either be interpreted as the process doesn't affect gestation, or like Alien 3 the hosts were infected by the intrusion of an organism into the sarcophagus. I was merely wondering which theory is popular? I did note that the engineer technology apparently involved the attachment of various tubules to himself at different points which detached forcibly when David terminated the stasis, so perhaps their method is different than the one used by Weyland Corporation. Also before anyone flames me for duplicating a thread, I did put various Aliens affected by stasis, stasis/alien combinations and nothing came up.
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June 24, 2012
I suspect that maybe David was able to communicate with Weyland by allowing the brain to wake up, but not the rest of his body - so to speak.
Regards the gestation issue, only thing I can theorize is that the Xenomorph has been engineered to not be affected by stasis, or it may be a unforeseen side effect of the creatures insanely high metabolism.
June 27, 2012
@ Ghost
Throughout all Alien films no alien embryo has ever been put in stasis, unless I’ve missed something somewhere. If you bear this in mind and watch Alien, and the conversations between Ripley, Dallas and Ash about the facehugger, I think will see their characters in a different light and realise why Ripley was for blowing the space hugger into space and not being returned home for study. Also, imo Ash knew that putting Kane into stasis would be pointless.
@Cypher
I don’t know if you are familiar with Dark Star, but there is a scene where the crew need to talk to the technically dead Captain Doolittle, but whose remains are in stasis. I think that could possibly answer your David enquiry. I think the Way Peter Weyland talks to David is a development from what we see in Dark Star.
In general I think Prometheus is an extension of some of the ideas from both Alien and Dark Star.
