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Originally Posted by Locke
Well when Security dude was going through the crew manifest there were Science officers and Engineers and a Doctor and yeah, a few roughnecks and the maintenance guy and his dumbass apprentice.
Besides, what would complete Roughneck clowns know about gathering Alien specimens?
Granted I'd buy it from that one woman..."we're going to put these specimens in this very fragile glass bottle and store it on the rickety second shelf so when it falls it shatters because thats how quarantine/isolation equipment works!"
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It looks like they are purposely collecting species that parasitize humans. In the Alien universe bringing back actual aliens requires government clearance. They purposely infect employees, because it's much easier to bring back a sick person (who happens to contain an alien insdie them).
Burke outright says this in Aliens:
So, yes, they are purposely choosing dumb people and likely instructing them to do things that will increase the chances of the aliens getting loose and infecting people.
Given that you need clearance once the alien gets on Earth, but can do whatever you want with it until then, is a good way to encourage crew members and scientists to perform and accept all these haphazard experiments on board the ship too. They are purposely being put on ships that can't actually contain the Xenos, then told to do experiments on them, even though Wayland Yutani already knows everything a scientist, with zero pre-existing knowledge, is likely to gather from the experiments.
The plot of Aliens revolves around a colony of people being placed in cross proximity to the known location of Xeno eggs. In the first Alien, it isn't outright stated, but heavily hinted at that the Nostromo, which was full of rednecks, was purposely sent to the alien eggs, and the androids job was to retrieve a sample.