Alien: Earth, a new series coming to FX, will focus on the various companies fighting for control against Weyland-Yutani years before the events of Alien, including Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold.

Aliens tend to fall into two distinct camps: those who want to zap us with lasers, and those who want to be our cool new intergalactic BFFs. While the world-invasion types tend to grab the headlines ...