This post contains spoilers for "Alien: Earth" episode 5.

It's been a good few years for big-budget science fiction on television. Between shows like "Andor," "Foundation," "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," and "Severance," the genre has thrived, though several of those series are now ending, or recently came to a close. FX's "Alien: Earth" (read our review here) hopes to keep the trend going, and so far, it's a strong contender to enter that same pantheon of 2020s sci-fi bangers. And speaking of "Severance," there's a bit of shared pedigree with that Apple TV+ show that you may have missed in the first episode, and now again in episode 5, "In Space, No One..."

Of course, I'm talking about Karen Aldridge, who plays Weyland-Yutani science officer Chibuzo aboard the Maginot — the ship

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