Egg on Sulaco

[The Old One]

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Thesis;

I still like to think the eggs and ovipositor jelly initially form inside the queen's body.
The jelly full of microscopic eggs moves from her body and into the ovipositor.  Here, the eggs marinate in the ovipositor jelly and grow to full size.
She rips away from the ovipositor and has a little bit of ovipositor jelly dripping from her body, which contains tiny, ungrown eggs.
During the fight with Ripley, some of this jelly drips onto the floor or gets flung onto a wall in the Sulaco.
The aliens have acidic blood, so I see no reason not to believe the ovipositor jelly might be slightly acidic too, so it melts through the floor/wall and the tiny eggs inside of it grow.
This is how we ended up with an egg growing out of a ceiling.

@Local Trouble Credit.

Bishop doing it can be logical in the story's diegesis, but it is absurd when you consider the tone of the character in the movie. He's introduced, developed and concluded as a good guy altogether; more than good, actually amazing. He's the next best thing to Ripley in the movie when it comes to intelligence and heroic feats.

It brings interesting questions about intradiegetic believability VS stylization and respect for the author's intent.

It is not only contradictory to the intents of Aliens, it also goes against Alien³ itself.

100%

Antithesis;

A "Deus ex machina" and, no antecedent presence? No.

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Synthesis;

Page 170.

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It was the intention during shooting that it was an unclear amount of surviving Facehuggers
that hitched a ride and waited until the humans were at their most vulnerable.

(The Facehuggers obviously ran for the hills when the airlock opened, under a grating- inside a vent and voilà.
When the Facehuggers return, the crew's in cryosleep.)

The egg was a studio insert, from the mentality that "these things have to come from an egg" creating a needless point of contention.
One that we're still discussing, if you don't care about the way the film should have been edited together being the real explanation;
Then in order to take it at face value, with it being in a place it couldn't possibly be. I only have this to say;

"I had a terrible dream in cryosleep."
-Ellen Ripley

+ Dream-like opening, Dream-like ending.

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[Local Trouble]

Can we call that the green option?

[Samhain13]

Why isnt there a poll on this thread?

[Local Trouble]

I guess OP didn't think of it 13 years ago when he started the thread.

[Frosty Venom]

So what are all the current theories?

Could someone please list them all.

[Rankles75]

So what are all the current theories?

Could someone please list them all.

[SiL]

So what are all the current theories?

Could someone please list them all.

In no order of validity:

Bishop did it
It was all a dream
Proto-egg plopped out of the Queen's ass and matured in transit
Queen laid the egg
A wizard did it

[Rankles75]

Reality is whatever you perceive it to be. Only if you accept this can you truly achieve inner peace... 

[HuDaFuK]

https://i.gifer.com/4rRv.gif

In no order of validity:

Bishop did it
It was all a dream
Proto-egg plopped out of the Queen's ass and matured in transit
Queen laid the egg
A wizard did it

6. It's just bad writing

[SiL]

I assumed he was asking for in-universe theories, not "the actual reason".

[JungleHunter87]

So what are all the current theories?

Could someone please list them all.

In no order of validity:

Bishop did it
It was all a dream
Proto-egg plopped out of the Queen's ass and matured in transit
Queen laid the egg
A wizard did it

So, what you're saying is that the Merlin saga will explain how that egg got onto the Sulaco?

Can't wait too see the movie then! If Ridley ever manages to start filming it.

[Frosty Venom]

Yeah ima go with the Queen did it.

[SiL]

Yeah, in terms of validity it's either "the egg itself was just a dream vision and the hugger got on board" or "the egg laying monster left an egg".

[The Old One]

^

Bacteria = Egg = Super/Royal/Praetorian Facehugger, infects Ellen Ripley and
infects a quadruped.
(Special Edition)
Or

Dream Alien representation & Facehuggers:
one onboard the USS Sulaco,
infects Ellen Ripley, perishes, (burned)
one onboard the EEV,
infects a quadruped.
(Theatrical Version & TBC New Version)

[JungleHunter87]

Yeah, in terms of validity it's either "the egg itself was just a dream vision and the hugger got on board" or "the egg laying monster left an egg".

Nah, Wizard is the most valid theory thus far.