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"This is deep space commercial vessel Snark, registration number E180246, calling Antactica air traffic control. Do you read me? Over."
―Sandy Melkonis (from Alien: The Original Screenplay)

The USSCS Snark, registration number E180246, was a deep space commercial cargo spaceship, captained by Chaz Standard.

History[]

During a voyage back to Earth, the commercial vessel USSCS Snark's computer awakens its crew of six - Captain Chaz Standard, First Officer Martine Roby, Navigator Dell Broussard, Engineer Jay Faust, Communications Officer Sandy Melkonis and Mining Engineer Cleave Hunter. The crew are received by a transmission of unknown alien origin from a nearby planetoid. Though Roby is less than convinced of the prospect, Standard ultimately agrees for the crew to investigate the possible S.O.S.

The landing on the planetoid causes subsequent damage to the ship, and after the revelation that the transmission is only three-hundred meters away, Standard, Broussard and Melkolis don breathing masks and personally seek out the signal where they discover that the origins of the transmission are coming from a bizarre derelict alien spaceship.

They return to the Snark, taking a sample of the corpse with them. Broussard manages to scan the planetoid's atmosphere and notices a pyramid like structure in the atmosphere. Though the crew are unanimously unsure of the pyramid's function, Standard, Broussard and Melkolis venture outwards again towards it while Roby has the computer successfully translate the message. Horrified, she proclaims that it wasn't an S.O.S, but a warning.

The three reach the pyramid where Broussard opts to explore it by tethering downwards, cutting himself off from Standard and Melkolis. Inside, he is met with a large chamber full of warped bio-organic murals and inscriptions, with grotesque leathery objects surrounding him. He goes to inspect one before it opens and a small squid-like Alien creature leaps out and attaches itself to his face before being brought back onto the Snark.

When Broussard awakens seemingly unharmed, he begins convulsing during a meal when an alien creature subsequently erupts from his chest, killing him in the process before escaping into the ship's interior. The crew decide to try to capture the creature using motion detectors, electric prods and nets. They eventually manage to capture it in the food-storage room, only its grown much larger and escapes through the ship's vent system.

After encountering the creature in the main airlock while looking for more flamethrower fuel, Faust contacts Roby to blow the lock, though he is inadvertedly killed after being caught between the airlock doors. Though the survivors initially opt to take their chances in the ship's only life boat, they realize that they could lure the creature into the ship and blow it up with explosives after launching it.

Soon, Hunter was killed and Standard was taken. Roby later discovers a half-dead Standard cocooned in a resin, and begs for Roby to kill her, to which she complies. She subsequently sets the Snark to self-destruct and escapes into the safety of the escape-ship. However, she later notices that the Alien had snuck aboard. Roby dons a space suit, shoots the creature with a harpoon-gun and blasts it into space, before incinerating it with the ship's engines. With the creature finally dead, Roby puts herself into stasis for the return journey back to the Colonies.

Crew[]

USSCS Snark's crew.

USSCS Snark's crew.

Trivia[]

  • Snark was an early name for the Nostromo in early drafts of the script for Alien. Another name suggested for the ship was Leviathan, which is similarly referenced by the UAS Leviathan, another ship Dallas served on before becoming captain of the Nostromo.
  • Arthur Dallas served as pilot and navigator aboard the USCSS Snark from 2100 to 2103.[1]
  • Within the comic, a crew member patch depcts the prefix USSCS while the crew manifest from the Alien Legacy DVD box set uses the prefix USCSS.

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  1. ↑ Nostromo crew manifest, available as an Easter Egg on Alien Legacy DVD box set
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