Alien (film) (John Hurt), Warrant Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright), Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm) and two Engineers, Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton). Detecting a transmission from nearby moon LV-426, the ship's computer, Mother, awakens the crew. Company policy requires any potential distress signal be investigated, so they land on the moon, sustaining damage from its atmosphere and rocky landscape. Parker and Brett repair the ship while Dallas, Kane and Lambert head out to investigate. They discover the signal comes from a derelict alien ship and enter it, losing communication with the "Nostromo". Ripley deciphers part
Patricia Holm other film and TV adaptations of stories in which Holm originally appeared, the character name has been changed, until December 2012, when American actress Eliza Dushku stepped into the role for a backdoor pilot produced by Roger Moore and shot under the direction of Simon West. The subsequent pilot, which recast Holm as a high-tech and deadly thief, was not picked up as a series and was eventually released in 2017 (digitally and direct-to-video). Kim Thomson played Holm in a series of adaptations broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the 1990s. The character also appeared in the "Saint" comic strip