Its the golden era of the Earth like the golden era of a certain republic far, far away. Thats why its all new, shiny and high tech. Pretty basic stuff people. As for a new sci-fi movie thats not connected to Alien that would indeed be great but lets face it without Alien connection (as much as they want to downplay it) Ridley has nothing and he knows it. At least will get some Giger environments on film....I mean video. I guess we can hope to be pleasantly surprised but I have a bad feeling about this.