Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alien: Earth is the first live-action TV series in the Alien franchise and takes place two years before the events of 1979’s Alien ...

That’s because the spacecraft that ultimately crashes on earth is a virtual carbon copy of the Nostromo, the ship flown by Ridley (Sigourney Weaver) and her crew in the 1979 film from Ridley Scott.