Captain Dallas (ID# 032/V4-07C) was the captain of the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film, Alien. He was played by actor Tom Skerritt. The USCSS Nostromo is a fictional starship, featured in the 1979 film Alien. ... Events March 5 - Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back, the sequel to Star Wars. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... Tom Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor. ...

As Captain, Dallas oversaw all ship operations. Dallas was a respected individual on board the Nostromo, and it appeared that everyone liked him. He had the highest level of access to "Mother", the ship's governess-like computer. Dallas' second in command was Executive Officer Kane. Dallas also had to oversee crewmember relations, including hearing minor bickering about unfair bonus money from Parker and Brett. Kane (ID# 825/G9-01K) was executive officer on the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film Alien. ... Parker (ID# 313/S4-08M) was the chief engineer on the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film, Alien. ... Brett(ID# 724/R4-06J) was the engineering technician of the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film Alien. ...

Dallas led the away expedition to The Derelict on Acheron with Kane and Lambert. When Kane was attacked by the "facehugger" and brought back to the Nostromo, Warrant Officer Ripley refused to break standard quarantine procedures by letting them back on board. By shouting desperately and pulling rank, Dallas was able to convince Science Officer Ash to comply with his direct order to open the hatch (despite Ripley's status as superior officer, given that Dallas and Kane were off the ship at the time). The Derelict was the name given to the long-wrecked spacecraft discovered by the crew of the Nostromo on the planet LV-426 in the 1979 science fiction film, Alien. ... LV-426, also known as Acheron, is the name of the planet where the Alien was first encountered by humans in the movie Alien (1979) of the Alien Series. ... Lambert (ID# 971/L6-02P) was the navigator on the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 in film science fiction film Alien. ... The fictional character Ellen Ripley is the protagonist in the Alien movie series. ... Quarantine, a medical term (from Italian: quaranta giorni, forty days) is the act of keeping people or animals separated for a period of time before, for instance, allowing them to enter another country. ... Ash (ID# 111/C2/01X) was the science officer on the commerical towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 in film science fiction film Alien. ...

As Ash began his scientific investigation into the parasitic creature, Dallas openly deferred several key decisions to Ash, the ranking science officer, citing the science officer's jurisdiction over scientific matters. Dallas also mentioned more than once how inconsequential he was compared to the mighty, nameless Company, and how much his decisions were governed by their policies and procedures. When attempting to communicate with "Mother" about how to defeat the alien, Dallas failed to realize that "Mother" was actually concealing Special Order 937: to retrieve the alien lifeform at any cost, including the lives of he and the crew. Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation that forms an essential part of the setting of the Alien movie, and its sequels. ...

Dallas was initially thought to have been killed by the alien near the third junction of the airshafts while attempting to drive it to an airlock. However, in the most famous deleted scene (which was preserved in the Director's Cut), it was revealed that Dallas was actually taken alive into the landing gear room, cocooned to be a host for another facehugger (which the alien was turning Brett into). When Ripley, while abandoning the Nostromo before its self-destruction, found a comatose Brett and an agonizing, near-death Dallas begging "Kill me, kill me", she mercifully follows his wishes with an incinerator. The xenomorph is a hostile fictional extraterrestrial monster of unknown origin from the Alien universe, designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger. ... A self-destruct is a mechanism which causes a device to destroy itself under a predefined set of circumstances. ... In medicine, a coma (from the Greek koma, meaning deep sleep) is a profound state of unconsciousness, which may result from a variety of conditions including intoxication (drug, alcohol or toxins), metabolic abnormalities (hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, ketoacidosis, etc. ... German troops use a flamethrower on the Eastern Front during the Second World War A flamethrower is a mechanical device designed to throw flames or, more correctly, project an ignited stream of liquid. ...

Like the Nostromo itself, Dallas and all other crewmembers' official whereabouts remained unknown for the next 57 years. He was missing and presumed dead from 2122 until 2179, when an off-course Narcissus escape ship returned Ripley and Jones the cat to civilization (and solved the riddle of the missing Nostromo, which had mysteriously vanished without a trace). An escape ship is a ship used to escape an emergency. ... Trinomial name Felis silvestris catus Schreber, 1775 The cat, also called domestic cat or house cat, is a small feline carnivorous mammal. ...