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human
[ALIEN] why did Weyland/Yutani trick the crew of the Nostromo into capturing the alien?

basically my question is would it have not been easier to send people like scientists and/or soldiers who knew what they were doing and knew what the threat was to secure a specimen rather than trick a couple miners (i don't remember what the crew did) to do it?
gpt
Weyland/Yutani didn't know the aliens were there beforehand.  The secret orders to the Captain and presence of the company mole (the Android) were standard precautions the company had in place, not special to that mission.  

Space is big, and it might have been decades before Weyland/Yutani could get a special missions team out there to check on what Nostromo detected. Better to risk the crew that was there rather than risk a competitor getting someone there before a follow up mission could check it out.