#Starship titanic guide entry full

Ford and Arthur, at the end of the book, are happy and relieved that 'it' is over Ford dies laughing wildly, and Arthur dies with relief. As the realization sinks in, Earth is destroyed by the Grebulon commander.įord, Arthur, Trillian, Tricia, Random, and every other human are killed, and forever dead on Earth.

The man wrongly blames Arthur for his death, and Arthur sees on a card that the club is called 'Beta' and that the owner is Stavros Mueller thus the club is 'Stavros Muller - Beta' and the man was the final incarnation of Agrajag: Arthur's time loop is closed and he can die. However, Random then shoots a man emerging from the gents' toilet. Trillian travels to Earth to warn Random and her friends.įord and Arthur get to Earth in time to discover Trillian and Tricia McMillan fighting over a psychotic Random in a club run by 'Stavros.' Trillian desperately attempts to convince Random to leave Earth before it is destroyed, but Arthur claims Earth cannot be destroyed while he is on it because he must kill Agrajag on Stavromula Beta before he dies. The horoscope is bad, and Trillian realises that the Grebulon may be preparing to destroy Earth to improve his horoscope. The Grebulon commander has been watching television broadcasts captured from Earth and asks Trillian to read his horoscope, which she attempts to do, allowing for Earth as an astrological body. Trillian visits the ship and is disappointed there is no news story. Trillian has been attempting to cover a war occurring elsewhere in the galaxy, but a time anomaly results in a battleship for one of the warring factions (the Grebulons) appearing in Earth space where it cannot contribute to the war. Ford and Arthur find their way to a bar and grill where they buy EP's (Elvis Presley's) spaceship and head to Earth. With the help of the Guide Mark II, Random steals a very nice spaceship from Ford, who has come to Lamuella for his parcel. Trillian presents Arthur's daughter, Random, to him, for him to look after while Trillian continues her career as a galactic journalist.Īfter a month or two, Random runs away, taking with her a parcel mailed by Ford Prefect in care of Arthur. After a little while, Trillian comes to see him. As a result of a shuttle crash, he finds himself on planet Lamuella, where people worship a man named Almighty Bob and becomes a sandwich maker. He believes that he lives a charmed life, unable to die, due to his encounter with Agrajag he knows that he is destined to visit Stavromula Beta and kill Agrajag there before he dies, but nobody has ever heard of Stavromula Beta.

5 Variations between audio adaption and bookĪrthur Dent has continued exploring the universe.The book succeeds in its main purpose, however: it will make readers laugh. Now and then, the tone becomes too precious, and the occasional attempts at a kind of psychological naturalism in exploring the Earthlings' feelings fall flat. The catalogue of characters' names itself is a riot: Unctimpoter, Inchbewigglit, Buke-Hammadorf. There is an embedded satire of commercial airline jargon and of all that is bureaucratically officious.

#Starship titanic guide entry full

It is the scenes that count, like TV sitcom scenes, full of one-liners, many very funny, but with a modicum of clunkers. The plot makes just enough sense to exist at all indeed the narration often goes back on itself, canceling things out or ridiculously revising. Jones, one of the creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, has taken a story line by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and incubated it in a rich medium of whimsy and satire to produce this absurd, rollicking space adventure. A journalist stowaway falls in love with one of them, but the beloved must put him off long enough to talk an artificially intelligent bomb out of exploding the ship. On its maiden flight, the ship suffers SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure) and winds up on Earth, where its robots invite a quarrelsome trio of ordinary humans aboard. The Starship Titanic, the crowning work of Leovinus, ''the greatest genius of his age,'' has been sabotaged by Antar Brobostigan and his corrupt accountant, Droot Scraliontis, in an insurance scam that bankrupts the planet of Yassacca.