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Section sizes Section size for Prometheus (2012 film) (31 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 4,486 4,486 Plot 4,857 4,857 Cast 9,840 9,840 Themes 5,587 5,587 Production 16 21,994 Development 4,845 4,845 Writing 8,267 8,267 Pre-production 1,696 1,696 Filming 3,361 3,361 Post-production 2,587 2,587 Music 1,222 1,222 Design 527 13,679 Costume design 1,804 1,804 Sets and vehicles 3,328 3,328 Creature effects 4,905 4,905 Sound effects 592 592 Visual effects 2,523 2,523 Marketing 4,356 8,826 Viral campaign 4,470 4,470 Release 598 7,764 Pre-release 1,764 1,764 Box office 3,361 3,361 Home media 2,041 2,041 Reception 15 11,235 Critical reception 6,515 6,515 Accolades 4,705 4,705 Sequels 2,109 2,109 References 15 123,882 Citations 122,824 122,824 Journals 1,043 1,043 External links 2,859 2,859 Total 217,118 217,118

I've just watched Star Treks 2 (Khan) and 3 (The Search For Spock) on Channel 4 Catchup, which was either filling a gap in my cultural knowledge or three hours of my life which I'm never going to get back. I'd seen bits of both of them in the early 90s, but had never watched either right through.

There's a bit in the third film where they go down to the Genesis Planet, on which life evolves quickly and unstably as a result of some experiment or other done by Kirk's son. They find the pod which carried Spock's body after his death (the tomb is already empty and he has been reborn). They find it surrounded by insectoid creatures the size of a human foot, and it is explained that they must have evolved from "space microbes" on the capsule. A little later the Klingons arrive, and the creatures have evolved into large snake-like creatures, big enough to wrap themselves around the arm and torso of a Klingon, who kills it by poking out its throat with his thumb. Klingons are bigger than humans, so presumably the snake creatures would be big enough to kill a human.

I wonder whether this was - either consciously or unconsciously - the inspiration for the worms which evolve in the black goo into snake creatures strong enough to break the arm of and then kill Milburn the biologist. The origin of the creatures is not explained at all in "Prometheus", no doubt because it was assumed to be obvious (actually it isn't, on first viewing).

We'd need a source - a published review - obviously. Paulturtle (talk) 08:03, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The closing sentence in the plot describes content which was not picked up in any of the subsequent films in the franchise. It looks like a non sequitur. It should at least state, "In the lifeboat left behind on the planet, an alien creature bursts out of the Engineer's chest." HenryRoan (talk) 06:25, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]