Nice article! It's always cool to discover these hidden nuggets of information, especially when they're about something you figure you know most of what their is to know by now (broadly speaking). I had no idea this scene was originally planned and by the sounds of it got fairly close to actually being filmed, so this was very cool to read about. And nice pic too! Very moody and atmospheric.
I like Ripley's straight to the point, no nonsense dialogue in those excerpts. Interesting that they initially seem to reference the blue light "membrane" we see covering the eggs in Alien. Not sure how I'd have taken that if they'd ultimately ended up filming this scene as I've always imagined it as some sort of security feature of the Derelict's cargo hold, like a stasis field or something, rather than a creation of the Aliens themselves.
Either way it would have been cool to see in the finished film regardless.