… the submarines Argonaut, Amberjack, Grampus, and Triton January-March 1943.
"That was the tag line for the 1979 movie Alien. The story of the interstellar commercial freighter Nostromo and its crew of seven, who unwittingly bring on board an eighth. The unfortunate crew ends up isolated, trapped in the metal box of their ship in the vacuum of deep space while being stalked by this creature that is, in the words of the Nostromo's treacherous science officer, "The perfect organism" whose "structural perfection is matched only by its hostility." One by one the crew members are picked off by this perfect organism, later christened a "xenomorph." Some of the crew disappear without even a sound. Science fiction, but a necessary reminder to those who hope to meet other intelligent life in this universe that there is no guarantee, no reason to even presume, that such life would be friendly.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
As it appears in the movie, the interior of the Nostromo is not your neat, shiny, state-of-the-art, everything-in-the-future-is-perfect science fiction space ship. It is cramped, dark, claustrophobic. With pipes, wires, gauges, warning lights, and support beams throughout. Worn, dirty, and dripping water in places. Functional, mostly, with few if any luxuries for the crew. Much like a World War II submarine, on which the design of the Nostromo's interior is said to be based…"
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