As far as characters go, we do get two new figures that are integral to the earlier years of the Alien series: Michael Fassbender’s David, an android sent by the Weyland Corporation to aid in the journey, and Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw, an archeologist who not only helps find the location of The Engineers, but gets to experience the first steps in the creation of the Xenomorphs up close.
However, humanity’s first voyage into deep space, under the cover of exploration, yields a deadlier, more horrifying result than anyone could have anticipated.