Perhaps Bishop planted the egg there... he was gone for quite awhile wasn't he. Let's not forget that he might have a alternate subroutine that could activate at any time. It would explain why the Queen would tear through him like that, stealing her eggs. The real answer is... the writer's got ****ing lazy. :0
Re: Aliens questions.
Originally posted by The Nuul
From Aliens to Alien 3 how does the eggs get on the Sulaco again.Like where was the Queen hiding the eggs?
I don't recall eggs ending up on the Sulaco.
In, Aliens when they escape the facility, beforehand, when the transport craft is still on the ground, a facehugger stows away onboard, which is perfectly feasible, considering that place was crawling with them.
When Bishop lifted off with his posse and they all went into hypersleep, one of the facehuggers, the one who impregnated Ripley, focused on implanting the embreyo for a young Queen into her, instead of a conventional Drone.
Xenomorphs actually have the ability to do this when the Queen of the current colony dies and there aren't any others to take her place - a facehugger can change the DNA route on a host and instead implant an embreyo which will create a new Queen - thus ensuring the survival of the colony.
In real life, Ants have the same ability.
Probably where the writer got the idea.
Originally posted by Myth
^ This is what I was thinking. They never mentioned finding an egg on the ship in Alien 3, yet I'm sure they looked through the ship to see if there was anything worth keeping.
Huh? you can see the egg in the opening credits on the sullaco. and the only thing that crashed on the planet was the hypersleep canisters in an escape pod. the sullaco did not crash.