There are three metaphorical representations of birth in the film. The first is the scene in which the crew wake up from hyper-sleep. The hypersleep vault is clean, white and sterile. The crew have been cryogenically frozen for the voyage back to Earth. The ship’s computer wakes them up and in a sense gives life to them. In fact, the computer is called Mother and has a female voice. The crew are dressed in white surgical wear that resembles swaddling clothes. The hypersleep vault is a ute