IMO what mattered about Alien was not that it was dystopian or horror-oriented. It is that it was about "the other people" who work below decks, or on freighte

IMO what mattered about Alien was not that it was dystopian or horror-oriented. It is that it was about "the other people" who work below decks, or on freighters, or production facilities. The comparison with the Star Trek franchise's efforts at the same thing says everything.