I might wonder if it had been loosely inspired by a Ralph McQuarrie painting featuring stormtroopers in a death star corridor with a large window looking into a landing bay in the distance to the left, and what's seen through the window becomes transformed into medical equipment, within the constraints of the size of the Nostromo set with the proposed corridors
Ralph McQuarrie's painting featuring stormtroopers near the landing bay in the Death Star for Star Wars (Early 1976) |
detail from Ralph McQuarrie's painting |
View of the med bay through the window |
I posted "Alien: Nostromo's infirmary references Ralph McQuarrie's Death Star Corridor painting? " on 21st May 2019, while before it was part of "Alien: Outside the infirmary"
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