The episode ended with the ship being pulled into a black hole rather than sunk by an iceberg after the ship's captain, Zapp Brannigan, pilots her into a swarm of comets, referred to in the show as "the icebergs of the sky". However the ship has been re-designed to fit into the visual style of the Futurama universe perfectly, even using the famous Tube Transportation System for the passengers to embark upon the ship. As this was a short cartoon and the plot focused mainly on the characters, the ship was more of a convenient backdrop to the story than an integral part of the plot as it is in the material penned by Douglas Adams. The plot of the Futurama episode was based almost completely on James Cameron’s Titanic, rather than the concept developed by Douglas Adams, and parodied it in several scenes including the famous dancing scene on the lower deck. The year after the publication of the Starship Titanic game,* Futurama* got in on the act with its season one episode, “A Flight to Remember” in which the crew of Planet Express got to sail aboard the maiden voyage of the new Titanic space cruise ship. Gaming site Destructoid ran a "Games that Time Forgot" article on it which stated: The game is notoriously difficult, I myself have only ever managed to wander around aimlessly and feed some chicken to a parrot. It then becomes the player’s task to restore the sabotaged computer, Titania and save the ship. In the computer game, the ship undergoes “Spontaneous Total Existence Failure” and crash lands on Earth, more precisely, on top of the player’s house. We are told of its majesty and beauty, how it was built in the “great ship-building asteroid complexes of Artrifactovol” in the early days of Improbability Physics and how, seconds after its launch, it suffered “a sudden and gratuitous total existence failure.” The ship is not mentioned again within the Hitchhiker’s canon, but instead became the star of its own computer game, devised by Adams sixteen years later in 1998 along with Monty Python's Terry Jones. In the Hitchhiker’s series, Starship Titanic is mentioned only briefly in 1982’s “Life, the Universe and Everything”. Such an inimitable story would naturally find its way to be woven into science fiction, as with most other great tales, both fictional and real. ![]() ![]() Melissa Peltier, the producer of a 1994 documentary about the ship said during an interview, ![]() The tragedy of the Titanic has fascinated people since the day of the disaster, almost one hundred years ago. Throughout experiencing the series in various forms, a few ideas have really leapt out at me and stuck in my head the concept of Milliways: the Restaurant at The End of the Universe (although I have to admit that I’d rather eat at the Big Bang Burger Bar), the knack of learning to fly - you need to learn “how to throw yourself at the ground and miss” but one concept that really stuck with me was that of Starship Titanic. ![]() The books promised far more detail and depth so I read them almost immediately. Included in the books were all five volumes of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy “trilogy.” I couldn’t wait to read them.Īs a child, I had been brought up watching the 1981 BBC television adaptation and as an adult, I had also seen the 2005 movie which I unfortunately couldn’t bring myself to like – although the yarn sequence brought me close. A few years ago, I inherited some of my dad’s book collection when my mum decided to have a clear out.
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