50 minutes flight time? That's over an hour and a half round-trip.
And the dropship landed on a high platform...
I don't personally buy the queen-carrying-egg, but prefer the emergency egg (which I believe would be created by bathing a standard, but premature, egg with Royal Jelly, which could explain having an egg with no egg sac) and the super-hugger.
It's really the only explanation that makes any sense at all to me, though it still has plenty of holes.