Alien crew depart other vessel meaning movie#

Alien crew depart other vessel meaning movie#

Ripley refers to it as the 'ICC quarantine,' and we know from Burke's dialog in the Special Edition of the movie that ICC is the initialism for the Interstellar Commerce Commission (a futuristic spin on today's Interstate Commerce Commission), some form of future regulatory body. The 'quarantine' gets another couple of mentions inДЄliens, or at least something similar. It's also possible that 'bug hunt' is a play on ' snipe hunt,' a term that can be used to describe a purposeless task.

Though it's never clarified on-screen in a canonical fashion, it's likely that the Colonial Marines are indeed called upon to perform sweep-and-clear operations without clear objectives. Why, then, does Hudson ask if the mission is a 'bug hunt?' And that is all consistent with Weyland-Yutani's information suppression in the Alien universe. When the squad encounters captive facehuggers in the colony's medical lab, even Burke has to ask if these are indeed the aliens Ripley briefed them on. The corridors of Hadley's Hope are littered with craters and holes from acid, but they're attributed to 'Ripley's bad guys' instead of any kind of formally named foe. But the fact that Ripley's character has been invited along as a 'consultant' and has to explain the aliens to the squad is proof enough that they've never run into the things before - as is the total collapse of discipline and unit effectiveness that the squad undergoes when their encounter does turn into a firefight. Hudson's question in the scene about a 'stand up fight' versus a 'bug hunt,' implies he's done both before and vastly prefers the former. Even Carter Burke, the unctuous Special Projects Director of Weyland-Yutani (Space)Д¬orp's Special Services Division, appears skeptical of Ripley's story (though he believes it enough to send a team of wildcatters out to the reported coordinates of the Engineer derelict, thereby causing the death of all but one of the Hadley's Hope colonists). And then there's that whole Prometheus movie.Д«ut Weyland-Yutani keeps its secrets, and whatever revelations the company got out of the events in Alien were suppressed, or at least held very, very closely.