That being said, as a Star Trek fan, its success is making my heart hurt. Don't get me wrong, I love what my beloved franchise is doing so far, and I eagerly await upcoming Trek projects in the future, but damn would it have been nice had executives been able to bring Alien: Earth 's creator into the fold when there was a chance.

Earth were probably expecting to see gnarly chest-bursting aliens and creepy robots. They were not expecting to see Sid, a lisping ground sloth from the second-rate CGI kids film series Ice Age. And yet,

Into this mess goes young Joe, the medic, brother to Wendy. Wendy, who spies on Joe all the time, sees this and demands to go find him. Her synth handler and Prodigy chief scientist, Kirsch (Timothy Olyphant) thinks this is a bad idea (it is,

Alien: Earth is making good on what we could have gotten from an unmade Alien sequel that some folks really wanted.

Aside from continuity complications, the fact that the original Yutani was chasing — or stumbled upon — alien creatures decades before the events of Alien is a fascinating concept. The films, at least the ones made this century,

Set two years before the original, it pays "homage" early on, when the cargo of alien life runs amok on a space vessel – which crash lands in a futuristic Bangkok. Thereafter, t

Spooky season is here early with Netflix's Wednesday and FX's Alien: Earth battling for the No. 1 streaming title.