Lost in Space, on Alien Resurrection

[FaxModem1]

Lost in Space proceeds as normal until the part where they hit the Proteus, replace it instead with the ship from Alien Resurrection, after the ship is evacuated. How do they fare against the aliens?

[Shroom Man 777]

What's there to ask? I mean, only that Pilot guy has a spacegun, right? And while that robot is good against a hundred binillion tiny spiders, I think getting swarmed by larger ANGRIER xenomorphs won't be as conducive to its robot health.

[Zor]

Those spiders were somehow capable of burning through metal, shroomy. Skews things over a bit.

Zor

[Shroom Man 777]

Yeah, but those things were way slower than xenos, and didn't have acid blood. What if Robby the Robot blew up a xeno coming at him, and got spilled all over with acid blood?

And aren't Aliens Resurrection aliens fucking smarter than the usual xenomorph?

[Sidewinder]

And aren't Aliens Resurrection aliens fucking smarter than the usual xenomorph?

If my memory is correct, yes. They quickly learned not to piss off Dr. Wren if the doctor's hand was near the "blast xenomorphs with (what I think is) scalding steam" button, discussed tactics with each other, and decided to kill one of their own so the dying xenomorph's blood would eat through the floor and let them escape.

As for 'Lost in Space', I saw very little of that film, but if Major West and the robot are the only ones with weapons, the Robinsons are screwed.

[Baal]

Actually it was blasts of freon or something similar as seen when the black marine was hit with it.

Also the bugs were no smarter than normal. In AVP the bugs were smart enough to cut the Queen so that her blood would eat through all the chains holding her.

[Shroom Man 777]

Those AVP bugs aren't normal either. Look at their Queen, different from the Queen from Aliens or Resurrection. I mean, the AVP Queen was like, a fucking Tyrannosaurus. And we know the Resurrection aliens had bits of Ripley's DNA in her.

[Tanasinn]

Xenomorph intelligence seems to vary on the situation. Alone, they seem to rely on stealth and almost seem sadistic. In groups, they've been witnessed acting like mindless berserkers, until that doesn't work any more: witness the Aliens xenos, which resort to sneaking above the roof when blunt force charges repeatedly fail.

Obviously, Resurrection bugs demonstrate more intelligence, but whether this is due entirely to how they have been altered, I would say, is an open question.

That said, my money is on the xenomorphs: I rather expect that most of the Proteus would be engulfed in hive structure, which would make amubushing our intrepid spacegoers rather easy. A team of marines EXPECTING alien trouble got ambushed by xenos hiding on the walls; how much better or the Lost in Space crew going to fare?

[Dorsk 81]

Smith and/or West and/or John and/or Judy get snatched by the Xenos, West and/or Will using the robot waste one of them which ends up burning through the hull killing anyone left. If the Xenos aren't already on the Jupiter II then Maureen, Penny and Will escape or make a foolish attempt to find any survivors and die too.

And aren't Aliens Resurrection aliens fucking smarter than the usual xenomorph?

I don't think so, the Xeno in Alien was pretty smart, hiding in the escape shuttle and sneaking around. The ones in Aliens must've been fairly smart by turning off the power, their attack on the corridors with the cannons was a bit of bad luck on their part, the strategy of just storming the barricades worked when they tried it the first time against the original colonists, but they were fairly quick in changing corridors and then trying the roof. The ones in Resurrection didn't seem any smarter than that, they learned a conditioned response, not something hugely impressive, killing the doctor when he entered the room was a nice touch, but no more intelligent than understanding how to cut the power in Aliens.

[Shroom Man 777]

Hrm, one of the xenos in Resurrection deliberately left a slimy gun on the floor and waited for a human to pick it up.

'sides, we know xenos instinctively like to scurry about in dark tight spaces. And the xeno in Alien could've hid in the escape shuttle cause everywhere else, it was noisy and all with the emergency noises. 'course, it had a taste of Lambert before taking its nap