I own nothing abut Douglas Adams or the starship enterprise but I think that if you want so sue me then you must have no life. This is my first try at writing so don't shoot me down.

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The first thing that you would notice about being on this particular spaceship is how clean it is. Or at least that would be the first thing you would notice if the particular species that had made it had invented florescent lighting before interstellar flight. As it was, the first thing you would notice is the man next to you turning on a torch; which, interestingly, is exactly what Arthur dent did see. The first thing an invertebrate would notice about Arthur dent is his ridiculous use of a spine. And the first thing Arthur dent did when he saw this particular invertebrate was step on it.

"I wonder," Said his companion ford prefect.

"Do continue," said replied Arthur in an angry, groggy, despondent voice, if that sort of voice is possible. Ford helpfully replied by walking away and looking at a computer panel. After all Arthur's many travels through space and time he had never encountered a space ship like this; in that, it actually looked like a space ship. The vogon's ships looked like they they had been ripped up from the un-fashionable part of Penge. The heart of gold was alright, but it did look like it had been designed by an overcompensating "modern-artist." No this was what a real ship should look like.

It was very hard, thought Arthur, to actually describe the ship; but it was a little bit like being on the main bridge of the Starship Enterprise but all the pointless little lights at the back were flashing mental beams of euphoria. The overall effect was quite something.

While Arthur had been thinking all this, ford had been making little "um," and "ah," noises

What's with the uming and ahing from ford?

What's he so exited about?

What's an invertebrate doing on such a clean ship?

Some of these questions and more will be answered next instalment