Dead Meat: Into Battle choice....

cuponator3000 I can attest to Ridley's commentary track and the cockroaches, I believe it was during the Covenant climax fight. At this point I believe Ridley considers all the films canon and Aliens more so, so the hive thing is still intact. The motes even produce tiny insects, the shock troops, that infect hosts in Covenant.

Lawrence of Arabia, you present reasonable facts regarding Daniels (I may change my answer).

Ingeniero I'd be on that like a bee to honey <3

drake and vasqueze are way to trigger happy. I would go with ether dillon and morse.

To all you folks taking offense at Xenomorphs being compared to insects and/or cockroaches, F.Y.I., cockroaches are extremely intelligent.

VivisectedEngineer agreed.

Im a fan of the Eggmorphing concept but it is what it is. Like it or not there is a Queen and/or hive in Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. Its not my preference but I accept it. So apologises Walter but with all due respect, they are in the same universe.

I understand the reasoning that a queen and hive makes the xeno's more akin to insects. This effectively brings them down to our level of understanding, thus removing their fear and mystery. And I agree. 

But at the end of the day a Hive with a Queen is a very efficient and logical mode of colonisation for a species with large numbers.

Resources are centralised and can be monopolised by the holding species, the eggs and juvenile young are protected, defence is superbly strong and near impenetrable for an invading force, rapid propagation, rapid mobilisation. Strength in numbers and all that.

For a perfect organism, a hive sounds like a perfectly feasible trait for the xenomorphs - once they start building in numbers.

@IRaptus

"a Hive with a Queen is a very efficient and logical mode of colonisation for a species with large numbers"

Oh hell yes! The bees and ants which xeno social structure is modeled after are extremely intelligent!