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Kane (ID# 825/G9-01K) was executive officer on the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film Alien. He was played by British actor CBE John Hurt.-1... The USCSS Nostromo is a fictional starship, featured in the 1979 film Alien. ... // Events March 5 - Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back, the first 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. ... Films are produced by recording actual people and objects with cameras, or by creating them using animation techniques and/or special effects. ... Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand... John Hurt (Mississippi John Hurt is an early American folk and country blues singer, 1893-1966) John Vincent Hurt CBE (born January 22, 1940) is a British actor. ...

As executive officer, Kane was second in command to Captain Dallas. His duties included overseeing certain ship functions and activities. Captain Dallas (ID# 032/V4-07C) was the captain of the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 science fiction film, Alien. ...


Kane was one of the three crewmembers who went on the away expedition to the Derelict spacecraft on the planet Acheron. He discovered and descended into the egg chamber, where a "facehugger" attached itself to him. It paralysed him and put him into a coma, yet did not kill him. The Derelict 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. ... A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star that is not a star itself. ... LV-426 as seen in Aliens LV-426, also known as Acheron, is the name of the fictitious moon (frequently but erroneously referred to as a planet) where the Alien was first encountered by humans in the movie Alien (1979) of the Alien Series. ... Look up Egg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Freerange eggs in straw nest Egg has multiple meanings: The term is used synonymously with ovum, the female sex cell in animals and plants. ... Facehugger A Facehugger is the first stage in the life-cycle of the Xenomorph aliens seen in the Aliens movie series. ... Paralysis is the complete loss of muscle function for one or more muscle groups. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...


When Kane was brought back to the ship by Dallas and Lambert, Ripley refused to let them back into the ship, citing basic quarantine procedures of twenty-four hours decontamination. As Dallas vehemently ordered that they be granted admittance to the ship, Ash opened the hatch for them. Lambert (ID# 971/L6-02P) was the navigator on the commercial towing vessel The Nostromo in the 1979 in film science fiction film Alien. ... Weaver in Alien: Resurrection. ... 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. ... Decontamination is the process of cleansing to remove contamination, or the possibility (or fear) of contamination. ... 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. ...


In the infirmary, Kane was unconscious during all of the attempts to remove the facehugger from him. When it fell off and died a few hours later, he awoke, remembering nothing about the planet and the events which had recently transpired. He did, though, remember having "some horrible dream about smothering". He was also very hungry, so Dallas opted for one more meal before they all returned to hypersleep. A sick bay is a nautical term for the location in a ship that is used for medical purposes[1]. Categories: Stub ... Unconsciousness is the absence of consciousness. ... Suspended animation is the slowing without termination of life processes by external means. ...


During their meal, (known to some as "The Last Supper" scene), occurred one of the film's most famous, terrifying and memorable moments. While everyone was eating, Kane suddenly began experiencing violent convulsions, writhing as though in an excrutiatingly painful seizure. After his last death throes, crewmembers were stunned when a small, larval-looking creature, called "the Chestburster", erupted suddenly and violently out of Kane's chest with a horrible noise and jets of blood. After exchanging stares (and shrieks) with the mortified crew, the creature quickly fled the galley, escaping to the deeper levels of the ship to begin its rapid maturation cycle. The Last Supper, represented by polychrome sculptures in the Pilgrimage Church of Madonna dell Sasso (Locarno) In the Christian faith, the Last Supper was the last meal Jesus shared with his apostles before his death. ... This article is about the medical condition. ... This article is about the medical term, epileptic seizure, as distinct from psychogenic non-epileptic seizure. ... A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ... The Xenomorph is a deadly fictional monster from the Alien universe, designed by the Swiss painter H. R. Giger. ... A French galley and Dutch men-of-war off a port by Abraham Willaerts, painted 17th century. ... A life cycle includes the major sexual stages of a species, especially in regard to its ploidy. ...


Kane's body was shot out into the void of space to drift forever, after a short funeral for him; he was the first of six crewmember deaths (out of a total of seven) on the final voyage of the Nostromo. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Space Attempting to understand the nature of space has always been a prime occupation for philosophers and scientists. ... Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea A funeral is a ceremony marking a persons death. ...


Like the Nostromo itself, Kane 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 (Linnaeus, 1758) This article is about the domestic cat. ...



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Executive Officer Kane - Definition, explanation (443 words)
Kane was one of the three crewmembers who went on the away expedition to the Derelict spacecraft on the planet Acheron.
In the infirmary, Kane was unconscious during all of the attempts to remove the facehugger from him.
Kane's body was shot out into the void of space to drift forever, after a short funeral for him; he was the first of six crewmember deaths (out of a total of seven) on the final voyage of the Nostromo.
Executive Officer Kane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (447 words)
Kane was one of the three crewmembers who went on the away expedition to the Derelict spacecraft on the planet Acheron.
In the infirmary, Kane was unconscious during all of the attempts to remove the facehugger from him.
Kane's body was shot out into the void of space to drift forever, after a short funeral for him; he was the first of six crewmember deaths (out of a total of seven) on the final voyage of the Nostromo.
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