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What if The Enterprise found a bunch Aliens/Xenomorphs on a ship?


That might have been very funny but also tragic as hell, turn those Aliens/Xenomorphs from the Alien movies into a minor nuisance by having The enterprise find a ship adrift in space with minor life signs, they are coming from the dead bodies on the ship in question.

A scan while onboard reveals parasitic alien creatures inside, Chestbursters, dead Facehuggers are on the floors of the ship, maybe a member of Worf's security team would get bitten by a Chestburster or a Facehugger, they go to sickbay and scare the hell out of Dr. Crusher when she sees the creature growing inside of them or heaven forbid if it emerges from inside of them while they are inside sickbay.

Not enough of a threat to take down the ship, but enough of a threat to kill some minor junior officers and give Worf something new to kill, maybe even Worf could fall victim to a Facehugger Alien/Xenomorph and require urgent care to avoid death.

Would make for a fun and gruesome crossover with Aliens and Star trek, especially if Barclay or Worf got into danger, Data being grabbed by a Facehugger would just be funny, Troi would just be sad.

On another note you could make it into a accident involving the Pakleds for example, raiding a ship to steal their technology and stuff, only to encounter the Aliens/Xenomorphs creature, then The Enterprise comes along later and encounters the bloody aftermath of it all.

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It would go about as well as you'd expect. You can imagine how it all goes down, because, if you think about it, every single Alien movie has the same basic plot points.

Here's how it goes: The Call, the Encounter, the Infection, the Birth, the Growth, the Killings, New Plan, Death of the Creature(s), and Escape.

You can do the exact same thing with TNG, if you don't mind self-destructing the ship as Ripley does to the Nostromo.

The key features that would plague the Enterprise crew is that the creature is not a lifeform as they know it. It seems like it is, but it's not. They've never faced anything like it. It is not an insect, not a bird, not a mammal, or marsupial, not a reptile, nor a fish or amphibian, mollusk. It is really quite extraordinary, in that it doesn't need air, food, or water to survive, and can survive in incredibly adverse conditions, such as completely unbreathable atmospheres, and the vacuum of space. It grows incredibly fast, going from embryo to full-grown killing machine in hours. It is very intelligent, incredibly fast with lightning-quick reflexes, razor sharp claws, teeth, and tail. Oh, yes, it has Acid in its innards (but, I don't believe it's blood). It doesn't show up on Infrared, which means it is not endothermic, and doesn't really require heat at all to survive, so that would make detection even with tricorders rather difficult, unless they know something else to scan for (maybe all that snot the thing leaves behind where it goes).

So, it all depends on how you'd want the crew to handle it. I'd ramp up the stakes by making one of the main cast infected by the alien after a minor crewman was hit and the embryo burst out of his chest right there in sickbay. Because it gives the doctor something to do after the fact; now that Beverly knows the situation better, she can work against the problem, against the clock, to save...Picard!! (If you make Wesley infected, the audience won't care.)

Maybe they can beam the embryo out of the chest cavity and into space, but this would require the precision of an android.

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Data is an android so fully mechanical but it was alluded to that Data could have sex and I believe he has been shown drinking liquids as well as eating foods. What if Data was somehow compromised. Would you get a mecha alien?

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Likely as not the embryo couldn't survive, or even if it did and managed to burst out of Data's chest, Data is not biological in any way. So, it really shouldn't have anything to pattern itself off of.

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It does make you realise how extremely LIMITED the Alien franchise really is: all it consists of is Earth in the future, run by a massive corporation intent on utilising the ONLY alien lifeform they've found so far as a bioweapon. Dull.

Why are you here if you haven't seen the movie yet?

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I've only seen Alien vs Predator. Which, I enjoyed.

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How have you not seen ALIEN or ALIENS CJ? That's like required viewing.

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I have not, Inspector. Only bits and pieces.

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they go to sickbay and scare the hell out of Dr. Crusher when she sees the creature growing inside of them


Actually, I think Dr. Crusher would be turned on. She's into that sort of thing.

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Lol. What gives you that idea, Moon?

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Trills. Xenomorphs. All symbionts type aliens look alike to me. I know, that's racist. I guess I just learned that prejudice from my dad, and he from his dad before him.

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You must know about the actual comic book crossover between TNG and ALIENS coming out next year:

http://trekcore.com/blog/2016/10/idw-announces-next-generation-aliens-crossover/

Looks kind of cool.

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Paramount Studios would have been sued for illegally appropriating the Alien Franchise by Fox Studios.
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Yet they're doing a TNG / ALIENS crossover comic book next year, so the comic book publisher IDW obviously has the rights to do it. I haven't bought a comic book in over 25 years, but I'm more interested in reading that than watching Discovery.

Here's another article on it:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/28/star-trek-the-next-generation-aliens-crossover-comic-announced

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They should make that into a movie.

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They already tried mixing two franchises (Alien vs Predator) and that wasn't much of a success (the first movie was ok but Requiem was a horrible gore infested mess).Plus I dread the idea of TNG running into the "Xenomorph" Troi might say silly lines like "I sense great anger and hunger,I think we need to feed it captain" or that Data is used by Starfleet the same way Ash was used by Weyland-Yutani.Although the prospect of seeing a Chestburster coming out of Wesley's chest sounds appealing.

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I liked Alien vs Predator. I got a free movie ticket when I bought the Special Edition of Predator in like 2004.

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Its a no go concept, Aliens dark, devious, no mercy. TNG light, non military no devious understanding.
*EDIT* I think TNG only has one thing on there side that is sensors.

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You might be selling them short.

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Sorry I peeked at your previus replies and I think you should watch the Alien Franchise well worth it.

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I agree. Lol.

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