Alien: Earth Recap: Bees Do It

Photo: Patrick Brown/FX What makes a being sentient? It's an incredibly tricky question, one that has vexed philosophers (and science-fiction writers) for generations. And before Alien: Earth, it's a question raised mainly just in passing in the Alien movies. There's some idle speculation in the films about where the Xenomorphs sit on the evolutionary ladder, and nearly every Alien story at some point deals with the question of whether synthetic creations care about their makers. Ridley Scott's divisive prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, also weigh the roles that killer aliens . . .