Alien the 8th Passenger on Instagram: "Eggmorphing or Egg-laying Queen? Eggmorphing, also known as Ovomorphing, is a process by which Xenomorphs can generate a viable egg in the absence of an egg-laying Queen. Alien Eggmorphing was originally intended to be witnessed during the climax of Alien, when Ripley discovers Dallas and Brett cocooned in the Nostromo’s hold, both at various stages of being “digested” and turned into an egg. The entire sequence was cut as director Ridley Scott felt it slow