4. Milburn Prometheus
Where the hell did Peter Weyland hire those people? Between the rock-star (sorry) geologist who they try to make into a badass and the completely nuts Milburn, I think the futures standards of intelligence really started to take a tumble after Weyland invented everything humanity would ever need. I know Ive just stated it, but it warrants another pop if Milburns the best biologist money could buy, the super-oligarch shouldve just built another David and had him learn biology as David did languages. Im willing to bet that the robot wouldnt have made as stupid a decision as Milburn does in the Engineers biological weapons room. What on Gods green Earth or the Engineers silica-choked hell-hole was Milburn thinking he was doing when he came across something that appeared as wildly dangerous as that snake creature? That thing looked bloody terrifying, yet he just keeps striding toward it, forcing it into attack. Whats worse is this wild idiocy sparked all the other panics which eventually put paid to the expedition. The man can be pretty much blamed for the death of Fifield who wouldnt have fallen in that muck if Milburn hadnt have been pratting around with the snake and carnage hulk-Fifield committed in the hangar, resulting in a shortage of soldiers to take down the angry Engineer. This in turn, led to the sacrifice of the ship when it had to fly into the airborne Engineer craft, meaning Milburns stupidity resulted in an awful lot of death. I know a lot of the blame for the Prometheuss travails can be laid at Davids door, but at least he had some sort of agenda all Milburn had was hardcore idiocy, and a deathwish to boot.