Corrected entry: This mistake is slightly different from how the eggs actually got onto the Sulaco (that mistake was already addressed in another post). In all other movies, the eggs were 'hatched' by some sort of movement or trigger. Since what was left of the crew was in stasis, they were completely motionless and would not have triggered the egg to open up.
12o
11th Feb 2013
Alien 3 (1992)
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Correction: And yet there are also a number of instances throughout the movies where nearby movement doesn't trigger an egg to open. When Kane first finds the crashed ship on LV-426, only one egg responds to his presence. When Ripley encounters the Alien Queen in Aliens, surrounded by a large number of eggs, none of the eggs initially open, with only one opening after some considerable time. In the first AVP movie, at least two facehuggers are shown to be loose in the complex, apparently released from their eggs without the stimulus of nearby movement. Clearly the triggering mechanism on the eggs is rather more complicated than "movement nearby. While obviously you are correct in that there would be no movement in the vicinity, due to the crew being in stasis, it cannot be stated definitively that the eggs could therefore not hatch.
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