Subject(s): Emily Francisco (Lauren Woodland) Format: 8 x 10 Glossy Photograph with caption. Origin: Authentic Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation movie photo provided to media outlets for promotional purposes. Release Date: 1989 Condition: Like New Comments: Alien Nation is a science fiction television series, loosely based on the movie of the same name. Gary Graham starred as Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly working with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco (from the planet Tencton), played by Eric Pierpoint. Sykes also has an on again-off again flirtation with a female Newcomer, Cathy Frankel, played by Terri Treas. The storylines generally revolved around morality plays on the evils of racism and bigotry using Newcomers as the discriminated minority.