Valerie Schmidt (Earth-5875)

"A creature that 'gestates inside a human host' - these are your words - 'and has acid instead of blood'."

- - Valerie Schmidt to Ellen Ripley

Valerie Schmidt was a member of the Interstellar Commerce Commission's board of directors in 2536.

Biography
During Ellen Ripley's tribunal regarding the destruction of the Nostromo aboard Gatewayt Station, Schmidt was the most skeptic in relation to the story given to them by Ripley. During the tribunal, she questioned Ripley's veracity regarding meeting an alien creature on a natural satellite with no indigenous life, even though Ripley insisted it came from an unidentified vessel that was not indigenous to the moon. She later debated Ripley's outlandish description of said alien creature, noting it held no resemblance to any of the identified species of the Covenant, bearing it could use a living human as hosts for gestation, as well as having acidic blood. She ultimately remained unconvinced of Ripley's claims.