Yaphet Kotto 1939 - 2021 "Dennis Parker" Chief engineer of the USCSS Nostromo. "Let's go over the bonus situation. We haven't- Can we just talk about the bonus situation?" ―Parker An actor with over forty movie credits and another forty or so TV credits. In 2014 he reprised his role as Parker for the video game "Alien: Isolation" Little known facts about Yaphet, was he was mentioned in a memo from Paramount studio's as being considered for the role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. He was also of Cameroonian descent, and son of the Crown Prince of Cameroon (Bell).