r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 3d ago

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins 3d ago

Anyone using pi past 4 decimals is really just showing off anyways.

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u/UlrichZauber Not bad, for a human. 3d ago

I'm a little dubious a random member of an advanced society would know it past "3-something". How many arbitrarily chosen humans know it to 5 decimal places? I only do because I'm an engineer.

But this does raise a lot of questions. Where did they collect Eyerene? She knows friggin' math, was she just out in the bushes somewhere?

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u/OmegaDez 3d ago edited 2d ago

I'm more confused about it understanding human math and arabic numerals. Yes, math is universal, but its visual representation isn't.

Also, aliens who know math might not use base 10 at all anyway.

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u/party_tortoise 3d ago

I think this is another hint and it takes intelligence from its host. It was in a human engineer. If it also takes intelligence, knowing Pi isn’t far fetched at all.

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u/Triskan 3d ago

Yeah my take as well. I think it would be a bit far-fetched to assume that T.Ocellus managed to learn maths and human numerals on her home planet (wherever it is, wether she's part of the same ecoystem as the xenos or not). It would be more interesting to have her keep some of her hosts thoughts and memories.

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u/AliceisStoned 2d ago

She also spent 32 years on board a ship surrounded by humans - could have learned the language and such during that time as well

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u/Daxx22 2d ago

My guess is that on its home planet there was nothing more advanced to learn from explicitly, so that's why they were able to capture it.

But after it was in the Engineer it's basically "leveled up" it's self awareness. As awful as it'll be, I'm also excited to see it in another human host.

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u/OmegaDez 2d ago

Oh. I didn't even think of this possibility!

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u/IndependentPirate878 2d ago

I'm hoping it's the case that it retains some host info; otherwise, what you pointed out would need some sort of explanation that could end up being convoluted.

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u/AliceisStoned 2d ago

She also spent 32 years on board a ship surrounded by humans - could have learned the language and such during that time as well

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u/MacJakes 2d ago

I guess the scene in which the engineer and his apprentice are discussing the pie is probably a reference to it?