After several decades spent away from the genre, Ridley Scott makes his triumphant return to sci-fi with the much anticipated Prometheus . Though the marketing approach sought to create a connection with Scott’s original Alien , the actual connections are few. Although it takes place within the same universe, the direction of the movie is totally elsewhere. In Prometheus , we follow Holloway and Shaw, two archaeologists on Earth who discover ancient cave drawings around the world. Normally, there would be nothing to it, but they find strong similarities between the drawings despite being oceans apart. They interpret these drawings not just as pictures, but rather as a map to our supposed creator or creators. With this in mind, they, along with a crew from the Weyland Corporation, embark on a journey galaxies away, following this map to our supposed creators. They are led to a moon called LV-226 (not to be confused with the more familiar and xenomorphic LV-426), where