To do a little fun science fiction sawing, the film by Ridley Scott in 1979 “Alien” takes place in 2122, which was, by the chronology “Star Trek”, about 30 years before the events of “Star Trek: Enterprise”. The “aliens” of James Cameron go to 2179, about 25 years after “Enterprise”, but still about 75 years before anything in the original series “Star Trek”. “Alien: Resurrection” by Jean-Pierre Jeunet jumps again, this time until the year 2379, which was the same year “Star Trek: Nemesis” took place.

Of course, the “Alien” films and the “Star Trek” shows take place definitively in separate universes. The “extraterrestrial” films are marked by their cynicism, generally representing clever and profit -oriented pets which aim to recover the extraterrestrial xenomorphs for harmful purposes, regardless of the human cost requires that recovery requires. “Star Trek”, on the other hand, is marked by its optimism, representing a future in which a galactic federation ensures peace, study and diplomacy throughout the cosmos. A franchise concerns the way in which companies aim to have killer monsters, intended to be used at war. The other concerns glories of a future without money or war.

But we, science fiction fans, like to speculate, aren’t they? What would happen, we can lazily ask if the characters of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” had to meet an extraterrestrial xenomorph of “Alien?” The latter, after all, is a killer monster who bleeds acid. What would a phaser do a xenomorphic? Would Captain Picard try to communicate with a xenomorph? Would he protect him, knowing that it’s just a form of life like something else?

It turns out that we almost had the real answers to these questions. IDW, a comic book label specializing in real estate license, has already designed a Captain Picard comic strip against Aliens which was to be published in 2017. Unfortunately, it was never concluded. Rich Handley comic book writer talked about the project blocked on its website.

According to Handley’s website, the “Star Trek” https://www.slashfilm.com/ “Alien” Crossover Comic had to be called “acceptable losses”, and its writing was announced at MCM London Comic Con 2016. The writers had to be Scott and David Tipton, the authors of Dozens of Idw “Star Trek” 2017. The artist was to be JK Woodward, perhaps better known to illustrate the comic strip of Peter David “Fallen Angel”. He also designed several comics “Star Trek: The Next Generation” for IDW, as well as comic links to programs like “CSI”.

The “acceptable losses” were to be published jointly with the 30th anniversary of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, and the comic book would have played Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D confront a foreign enemy. Unfortunately, there is no clue regarding what the history of “acceptable losses” would have been, and the Handley website only indicates that the Romules and the Borg would have been involved in one way or another. Of course, if the Borg was involved, we can be assured that the readers would be treated at the sight of an extraterrestrial xenomorph assimilated in the collective of Borg.

The Borg, after all, were clearly inspired by the works of Swiss surrealist (and guy with the aspect of Dracula) HR Giger and the same artist designed the Xenomorph for the original film by Ridley Scott. Seeing the Borg assimilating a xenomorph would have completed pop culture, and would also have made for the kind of powerful and aggressive extraterrestrial antagonist that Captain Picard should have had overtime to defeat. How to deal with a borg that has an increased level of blood-blood?

Various artists have published conceptual images, and they seem very attractive. One of the covers was to present Captain Picard buried in extraterrestrial Xenomorphs, about the same way as Captain Kirk (William Shatner) was buried by tribbles in the classic trek episode “The Disorder With Tribbles” (December 29, 1967). Another would have presented a bunch of xenomorphic eggs throwing the ground of a borg ship.

So why the crossover “Next Generation” https://www.slashfilm.com/ “Alien”? According to Rich Handley’s website, no reason has ever been given. Fans, however, hypothesized that the director “extraterrestrial” Ridley Scott did not like the idea and personally put the Kibosh on the whole case. (Scott neither confirmed nor denied this.)

Of course, “Star Trek” would end up having an “extraterrestrial” crossover … in a way. The episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” entitled “All those who Wander” (June 30, 2022) was a direct elimination of the “aliens” of James Cameron, and not only presented similar history rhythms and similar parameters, but even presented an almost identical monster. On “Strange New Worlds”, the xenomorphs were replaced by the Gorn, but the two species incubated their newborns inside the abdomen of other living beings. The Gorn also burst chests from their hosts, just like in “Alien”.

“Aliens” and “Strange New Worlds” presented a group of well -armed military members tracking down the corridors of a high -tech site now dead, located on a distant world. And the two presented a frightened young girl, found hiding in the corridors; In “Aliens”, it was Newt, played by Carrie Henn. On “Strange New Worlds”, it was Oriana, played by Emma Ho.

The comic strip IDW therefore never really gathered the two properties under license, but “Star Trek” still did the “aliens” thing, five years later. / The film even called him one of the best episodes of horror of the franchise.