Ash595: Thank you for your answer. I will try to check this. Basically, I am not interested in copies, DVD-Rs etc. If I can buy the original somehow somewhere, I do so. Only if I cannot, then I am willing to accept copies. But this DVD (Galaxy Beyond) seems to be really priceless to me, I am not interested in the other sci-fi movies discussed in the main feature, especially not the very old ones. If I want to spend 15 dollars for Alien trailers, I can order Abyss double disc edition. It is a shame I do not have it yet anyway. It contains as much as 6 Aliens trailers and thus some of these must be necessarily „unknown“.
Rijir: Trying to find out. I am not a member of any Alien forum even if there are plenty of them on internet. I mean - maybe this version is something common and normal to these people (but I doubt so). I met only three references to this movie until now. Bill Hunt from Digital Bits mentions it indirectly (Aliens DVD review), using a word „longer“. By the way if you did not read his comments to Quadrilogy there, you really missed something! Making of disc Q6 without Fincher was painful. He even included Lauzirika’s memories (nightmares?) in the book Insiders Guide to DVD (44 pages about Quadrilogy). I did not read it yet, waiting for my copy I ordered. But the shorter version of the story on Digital Bits was amazing. Second reference is on A2 laserdisc (see “laserdisc archives” on disc Q9, one of the last pages). Third one is from an Italian Aliens magazine I bought in 1995 in Milano. Personally, I do not think that this middle version is for any good. I think you can edit it yourself by excluding either the robotic guns plot or Ripley’s daughter plot from the long version, probably the later. But who knows? That is why I want to see it.