The curse of Ash

The mention of Ash above is, for those unawares, reference to the robot character played by actor Ian Holm in the 1979 science-fiction film Alien. Ash essentially tells members of the unfortunate crew of the spaceship Nostromo they are going to be alright even if exposed to the ‘alien’ in question, despite having secret orders suggesting exposure will at the least be uncomfortable – and as the audience knows very actually lethal. Ash himself also tries to kill the only member of the crew to question his robotic judgement. It would not do to suggest the FSA is trying directly to do the...