| Includes information relating to the year 2122. |
2122 is the twenty-second year of the 22nd century. It follows 2121 and precedes 2123. As this is a year that has yet to take place, all media relating to the year 2122 is associated with the science fiction genre, though it may also include elements of the superhero fantasy genre as well.
The 1979 science fiction/horror film Alien takes place in the year 2122. This film showcased six human characters, one robot, one artificial intelligence, two alien species, one alien world, and one space vessel (including support vessels).
The commercial towing vehicle the USCSS Nostromo picked up a deep-space S.O.S., which forced the ship's on-board computer, Mother, to awaken its crew from hyper-sleep. Captain Arthur Dallas tracked the S.O.S. signal to an unidentified world, where they found the remains of a alien pilot in his ship, which also included a cargo bay filled with strange pods. A crab-like specimen from one of the pods attacked First Officer Commander Gilbert Kane, and the crew brought him back to the Nostromo for observation. This "face-hugger" implanted an egg into Kane's body, using him as a living incubator. When the egg hatched, it burst from his chest and escaped into the bowels of the ship. Dallas and the others hunted the creature down, but it quickly matured into a full-sized xenomorph, and systematically killed the members of the crew, one by one. The only one to survive was Warrant officer Ellen Ripley, who ejected the alien through the airlock of the ship.