"In the same star system" do you realize how big outer space is? I still think you're assuming LV-426 is closer to Sevastopol than it's really supposed to be.
I don't know if they give actual numbers, if they don't then this is a "glass half full/half empty" situation where the distance is only based on your assumption, you assume within "spitting distance", I assume it's the "nearest" station which doesn't mean it was that near, Sevastopol itself was supposed to be an isolated station in the ass end of nowhere to begin with, making LV-426 even that much more remote.
I can't believe that I have to point this out again, but
it's in the same star system as LV-426. Even if the Zeta Reticuli system has a larger diameter than our own, the distances between objects within it, however overwhelmingly long they might be on a human scale, are still going to be completely dwarfed by the 39-light-year distance back to Earth.
But if LV-426 was really that remote it never would have been discovered in the first place, why would the Nostromo even be in the area in the first place? Again, outer space is pretty big, it makes sense for LV-426 to be in just an obscure enough locations it would take a while to discover, but still not remote enough so that it could feasibly be discovered in the first place.
It's not that remote, though. It's located in the same star system as a very large commercial space station which, in it's better days, used to handle a massive amount of traffic, which makes it utterly ridiculous that some Wey-Yu dork way out on Thedus or wherever would be the first and only person to detect the beacon.
You're forgetting the most important thing though and that's it doesn't matter, plot holes only matter when they are glaringly obvious, otherwise it's just pointless nitpicking
They
are glaringly obvious unless you've completely turned your brain off, which really calls into question the intelligence (or at least, the honesty) all these people calling
Isolation the only good
Aliens-universe game.
...they wanted to make a game set between Alien and Aliens, so what if they had to bend things slightly in order for the game to happen? It's a high quality enough thing to make any nitpicks forgivable.
This is the bargaining stage of loss.
And really, how would you take it if I said it was perfectly fine that Hadley's Hope is shown to be mostly intact in
Colonial Marines, rather than flattened by an expanding "cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska," simply because the developers wanted the players to be able to explore the iconic environments from the film, and had to "bend things slightly in order for the game to happen?"
If you want a terrible plothole in an Alien thing, how the hell did an egg get on the Sulaco in Alien 3? Now that was a bullshit plothole.
No argument there. That was incredibly stupid.
It may not have been anything political but the movie was a pretty big flip off to the audience, the comparison is valid I think.
Goalpost shifting.
(This counts as Star Trek, right?) You don't seem to know what the Fermi paradox is. It's not a theory for alien life, it's an apparent paradox with multiple possible answers, some are cynical, some are optimistic, some are boring but realistic.
It's a theory for explaining why humans haven't encountered alien life yet, based on guesses, assumptions and speculation about how a spacefaring species would develop and behave.
Contemplating the really cynical answers is interesting for a sci-fi fan even if you don't actually agree with them.
Or even if the material in question doesn't really provide all that much support for such a take, as in your case.
But yeah, NuTrek ships are big, huge, cavernous rooms connected by big, huge, cavernous hallways, darkly lit and largely faceless. There is no character to them. They're Generic Mostly CGI Ship #1513.
Same thing with the costumes, I've noticed. NuTrek dresses everyone in generic post-NuBSG street clothes...
...whereas TNG-era Trek had a very unique (if also very odd) style for human civilian clothing, often featuring wrapped tunics, odd patterning and some pretty eccentric fabrics.
