日本科幻文学 经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第24章9

经典科幻文学:《宇宙尽头的餐馆》第24章9  

“Well
” said Ford
“I can see that you’ve got a lot of things you’re going to talk about
so
thanks for the drinks
and if you could sort of drop us off at the nearest convenient pla…”
“Ah
well that’s a little difficult you see
” said the Captain
“because our trajectory thingy was preset before we left Golgafrincham
I think partly because I’m not very good with figures…”
“You mean we’re stuck here on this ship?” exclaimed Ford suddenly losing patience with the whole charade
“When are you meant to be reaching this pla you’re meant to be colonizing?”
“Oh
we’re nearly there I think
” said the Captain
“any second now. It’s probably time I was getting out of this bath in fact. Oh
I don’t know though
why stop just when I’m enjoying it?”
“So we’re actually going to land in a minute?”
“Well not so much land
in fact
not actually land as such
no… er…”
“What are you talking about?” said Ford sharply.
“Well
” said the Captain
picking his way through the words carefully
“I think as far as I can remember we were programmed to crash on it.”
“Crash?” shouted Ford and Arthur.
“Er
yes
” said the Captain
“yes
it’s all part of the plan I think. There was a terribly good reason for it which I can’t quite remember at the moment. It was something to with… er…”
Ford exploded.
“You’re a load of useless bloody loonies!” he shouted.
“Ah yes
that was it
” beamed the Captain
“that was the reason.”