With 2012s Prometheus and its continuation, Alien: CovenantDirector Ridley Scott returned to the franchise he created in 1979 with his gothic horror in space masterpiece, AlienOpen up the universe and uncover a unique connection between the titular Xenomorphs and the mysterious “Space Jockey.” The “Pilot” appeared early in the original film, first appearing to the crew of the Nostromo as they responded to a strange transmission from the distant moon LV-426. It was a hulking extraterrestrial with an elephant-like trunk, its chest violently ripped open from the inside out at some point long ago. John Hurt’s Kane discovers a chamber…