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THE SPACE-JOCKEY
In addition, the fuselage of the 'cannon' is not only phallic but directing out from the space-jockey's hip area; we seem to come across the huge creature in a Pompeii-like moment of lonely sexual activity, frozen by the advent of the xenomorph that has burst out of its chest. It's a poetic image, and it might take a bit of a plot-hack to give it a practical slant.
Not least the space-jockey himself. He is patently part of a machine, and the machine is patently part of the (now derelict) spaceship. Was he bred for the purpose by his race? Or will the prequel show him ambulatory and getting into the 'empty' telescope/cannon and a whole lot of CGI cyber-bones wrapping round him, like Tony Stark's Iron Man suit?
THE EGGS IN THE DERELICT SHIP
Likewise problematic the reason that all those eggs were in the cargo hold of the derelict in Alien. Were they laid there by a long-dead Aliens-style xenomorph queen after the ship got infested, like the Nostromo, by a single alien? Or are they genetically-engineered weapons created by the space-jockey race to drop on enemies in a ghastly act of biological warfare?
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I think two things that need to be mentioned is that based on the original screenplay and novelization:
1) The space jockey was there for a very very long (thousands? Hundreds of thousands years?) time and the "reason" he/she/it seems to be part of the chair is that its been pretty much fossilized to the chair
2) That all the eggs seen in the "cargo" hold of the derelict ship are the fellow crew members of the space jockey - remember before Cameron got a hold of the franchise and made "starship troopers" out of it the Aliens are created by the victims being converted into the eggs by some form of DNA manipulation - of course thats after the Alien gets to eat a little bit first. The famous cut scene from Alien when Ripley gets lost and stumbles into the bowels of the Nostromo and finds Dallas halfway to being an "egg" and another almost fully formed egg is seen with whats left of Brett inside being changed.
In fact Dan O'Bannon was miffed in 79 when this was cut from the film and the whole Queen aspect a few yrs later as it took a really disturbing and creepy angle out of play. I would think and hope a revisit using the original point of the Alien having the ability to transform other lifeforms into its own and what happened to the derelict crew could make an awesome feature