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* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping: The BarBot, most of the time.
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* CopyAndPasteEnvironments: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]]. The Second Class stateroom lobbies have the same elevators as the Super Galactic Traveler Class stateroom lobbies, only the [=SGT=] elevators serve three staterooms while the Second Class elevators only serve two. The Second Class elevators still have three buttons, though.
--> '''Elevator Announcer:''' ''(on pressing the top button)'' "This button also takes you to the upper level, but is situated three inches higher for your convenience."
--> '''Elevator Announcer:''' ''(on pressing the top button)'' "This button also takes you to the upper level, but is situated three inches higher for your convenience."
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* LowerClassLout: Passengers in Super Galactic Traveller Class are treated this way. They have to find their own way to their room without assistance from the staff, each floor has two lobbies each with access to eighteen 'staterooms', which the passenger then has to assemble themselves, for way of entertainment each lobby has a single relaxation room in which there is a single chair which looks at a portrait, and each passenger gets a single chicken from the 'restaurant', which is basically just a chicken and sauce dispenser.
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* RedHerring: Your assigned First Class stateroom. Unless it happens to be next to the only First Class stateroom of interest, there's no point in going there.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Your first action aboard the Starship Titanic is to press a large button beneath a sign saying Press Button For Opening Credits Sequence. [[CaptainObvious It starts the opening credits sequence.]]
* DudeWheresMyRespect: The only two characters to even acknowledge the trouble you're going to are Marsinta (once you've fiddled with her settings) and Titania.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The [=DoorBot=] only comes down at the beginning of the game to make sure your house didn't scratch the paintwork on the ship when it crashed.
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** [[spoiler:Brobostigon]] handwaves this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
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* NobodyPoops: At least, nobody of the upper classes, anyway. There are toilets in the Super Galactic Traveller Class rooms ([[{{Squick}} which double as clothes washers]]) but conspicuously absent throughout the rest of the ship, including in the Second and First Class rooms.
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* NobodyPoops: At least, nobody of the upper classes, anyway. There are toilets in the Super Galactic Traveller Class rooms ([[{{Squick}} which double as clothes washers]]) but conspicuously absent throughout the rest of the ship, including in the Second and First Class rooms. Marsinta specifically calls this out when you upgrade to First Class, telling you that nowhere in First Class will you find any of 'those nasty lavatory things'.
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--> '''Multiple characters:''' [[spoiler:Nobody likes a smartass.]]
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* TookALevelInKindness: Marsinta, the [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], [[{{Jerkass}} deliberately unhelpful]] [=DeskBot=] becomes extremely kind and gentle once you [[spoiler: recalibrate her off-kilter personality settings]].
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* TookALevelInKindness: Marsinta, the [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]], [[{{Jerkass}} deliberately unhelpful]] [=DeskBot=] becomes extremely kind and gentle once you [[spoiler: recalibrate her off-kilter personality settings]]. She can also be a GossipyHen if you ask her about some of the characters.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: The game originally came on three [=CDs.=] CD 3 is generally only used for the opening and the ending of the game, but once you reach First Class, this starts happening a lot, as all of the First Class areas - including the Bar, which is a Second Class area - require a change over to CD 1.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: The game originally came on three [=CDs.=] CD 3 is generally only used for the opening and the ending of the game, but once you reach First Class, this starts happening a lot, as all of the First Class areas - including the Bar, which is a Second Class area - require a change over to CD 1. Fortunately, later releases included the option of installing all the game files to the hard drive, with no discs needed whatsoever.
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* SameFaceDifferentName: The voice of the Bomb is credited to "Kim Bread", but it is unmistakably Creator/JohnCleese.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The website for Starlight Travel, the company that supposedly built the Starship Titanic (now defunct but [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070711102210/http://www.starlightlines.com/cgi-bin/front.cgi available on the Internet Archive]]), contains some concept art, design plans, maintenance reports, Brobostigon's diary, and even a calculator for various currencies in the Starship Titanic universe.
** The maintenance reports range from routine inspections and inter-company bickering all the way through to {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.
---> '''Opportunity''': Navoplex test run parametrically satisfactory but whining noise heard after system shutdown.\\
** The maintenance reports range from routine inspections and inter-company bickering all the way through to {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.
---> '''Opportunity''': Navoplex test run parametrically satisfactory but whining noise heard after system shutdown.\\
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* AllThereInTheManual: The website for Starlight Travel, the company that supposedly built the Starship Titanic (now defunct but [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070711102210/http://www.starlightlines.com/cgi-bin/front.cgi available on the Internet Archive]]), contains some concept art, design plans, maintenance reports, Brobostigon's diary, and even a calculator for various currencies in the Starship Titanic universe.
**universe. The maintenance reports range from routine inspections and inter-company bickering all the way through to {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.
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--> '''Opportunity''': Navoplex test run parametrically satisfactory but whining noise heard after system shutdown.\\
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--> '''Opportunity''': Navoplex test run parametrically satisfactory but whining noise heard after system shutdown.\\
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After the titular ship reduces your house to rubble, what choice do you have but to to answer Fentible's CallToAdventure?
** ButThouMust: In fact, if you type "no" (or indeed anything besides "yes"), the only acknowledgment your refusal gets is "An odd way to spell it, but I suppose it will have to do."
* ChekhovsGun: Both [[spoiler: the picture of the night sky above your house]], and [[spoiler: [[{{Feelies}} the 3D glasses that came packaged with the game itself.]]]] These two items are completely useless [[spoiler: until you gain access to the Titanic's navigation systems at the very end of the game.]]
** Also, the [[spoiler:Third Class chicken delivery system and the Maître d'Bot's arms.]]
** ButThouMust: In fact, if you type "no" (or indeed anything besides "yes"), the only acknowledgment your refusal gets is "An odd way to spell it, but I suppose it will have to do."
* ChekhovsGun: Both [[spoiler: the picture of the night sky above your house]], and [[spoiler: [[{{Feelies}} the 3D glasses that came packaged with the game itself.]]]] These two items are completely useless [[spoiler: until you gain access to the Titanic's navigation systems at the very end of the game.]]
** Also, the [[spoiler:Third Class chicken delivery system and the Maître d'Bot's arms.]]
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* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After the titular ship reduces your house to rubble, what choice do you have but to to answer Fentible's CallToAdventure?
** ButThouMust:CallToAdventure? In fact, if you type "no" (or indeed anything besides "yes"), [[ButThouMust the only acknowledgment your refusal gets is "An odd way to spell it, but I suppose it will have to do."
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* ChekhovsGun: Both[[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the picture of the night sky above your house]], and [[spoiler: [[{{Feelies}} the 3D glasses that came packaged with the game itself.]]]] These two items are completely useless [[spoiler: until you gain access to the Titanic's navigation systems at the very end of the game.]]
** Also, the %%** The [[spoiler:Third Class chicken delivery system and the Maître d'Bot's arms.]]
** ButThouMust:
* ChekhovsGun: Both
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* FunWithAcronyms: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
* GameBreakingBug: The game spanned multiple [=CD-ROMs=]. Some batches went out with the final disc in the set missing. Okay, not technically a bug, par se, but certainly game-breaking.
** This is due to there being an ACTUAL game breaking bug on the final disk in the first printing that was missing a file that had the game's interface with their [[FunWithAcronyms Personal Electronic Thing]] which is necessary to do anything with your inventory or even save/quit the game!
* GargleBlaster: The [=BarBot=] asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything "Nobody likes a smart-ass".]]
** This is, in fact, a hint.
* GhostShip: You are the only living thing on-board, however there are two dead things...
** and one very living (and vocal) parrot.
** The flock of starlings are alive - at least, to start with...
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
* GameBreakingBug: The game spanned multiple [=CD-ROMs=]. Some batches went out with the final disc in the set missing. Okay, not technically a bug, par se, but certainly game-breaking.
** This is due to there being an ACTUAL game breaking bug on the final disk in the first printing that was missing a file that had the game's interface with their [[FunWithAcronyms Personal Electronic Thing]] which is necessary to do anything with your inventory or even save/quit the game!
* GargleBlaster: The [=BarBot=] asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Gargle Blaster]], he replies [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything "Nobody likes a smart-ass".]]
** This is, in fact, a hint.
* GhostShip: You are the only living thing on-board, however there are two dead things...
** and one very living (and vocal) parrot.
** The flock of starlings are alive - at least, to start with...
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** '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
**Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
* GameBreakingBug: The game spanned multiple [=CD-ROMs=]. Some batches went out with the final disc in the set missing. Okay, not technically a bug, par se, but certainlygame-breaking.
**game-breaking. This is due to there being an ACTUAL game breaking bug on the final disk in the first printing that was missing a file that had the game's interface with their [[FunWithAcronyms Personal Electronic Thing]] which is necessary to do anything with your inventory or even save/quit the game!
* GargleBlaster: The [=BarBot=] asks for your help in making a fairly nasty one. Interestingly, if you ask him for an ''actual'' [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Gargle Blaster]], he replies[[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything [[DevelopersForesight "Nobody likes a smart-ass".]]
**]] This is, in fact, a hint.
* GhostShip:You You, a flock of starlings, and a very vocal parrot are the only living thing on-board, however there are two dead things...
** and one very living (and vocal) parrot.
** The flock of starlings are alive - at least, to start with...things on-board.
** '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
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** and one very living (and vocal) parrot.
** The flock of starlings are alive - at least, to start with...
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* GuideDangIt: One review dubbed the game's difficulty "Impossible unless you're the author or telepathic".
** In particular, one feature of the PET is very easily overlooked - the ability to manually enter room codes in the 'Designer Room Numbers' menu. [[spoiler: It's necessary to use this feature to find which one First Class stateroom out of a couple hundred is of interest to you.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: The PET inventory, natch.
** This extends to the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system; no matter the size of the item, it will always compress into a cylinder the size of a drinks can that the Succ-U-Bus can swallow. This includes everything in size from napkins through to [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror Antar Brobostigon]], the project manager.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Occasionally, while you're in the bar, the parrot will interject with a Hey, Barman joke - from the ''other side of the ship''. YMMV on the success of said jokes.
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: In order to obtain a hammer, you need to press a button with a long stick. However, in order to obtain a long stick behind glass, you must break the glass with a hammer. [[spoiler:Fortunately, there's a parrot perch that you can use in place of the long stick.]]
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the perch isn't quite long ''enough'' to get the lemon. You ''can'', however, use it to get the hammer you'll need to break the glass and get the long stick.]]
* LawOfConservationOfDetail: Played with throughout the game. Whenever an item can be taken that turns out to be one of Titania's body parts, a new one instantly grows back.
** [[spoiler: Brobostigon]] handwaves this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in some places, though. There are doors on the First Class decks that don't go anywhere, there are ''thousands'' of cabins on the ship, but only three are of interest to you in any one playthrough, [[RealityEnsues and nothing ever plays on]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking TV channel 1]].
** In particular, one feature of the PET is very easily overlooked - the ability to manually enter room codes in the 'Designer Room Numbers' menu. [[spoiler: It's necessary to use this feature to find which one First Class stateroom out of a couple hundred is of interest to you.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: The PET inventory, natch.
** This extends to the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system; no matter the size of the item, it will always compress into a cylinder the size of a drinks can that the Succ-U-Bus can swallow. This includes everything in size from napkins through to [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror Antar Brobostigon]], the project manager.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Occasionally, while you're in the bar, the parrot will interject with a Hey, Barman joke - from the ''other side of the ship''. YMMV on the success of said jokes.
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: In order to obtain a hammer, you need to press a button with a long stick. However, in order to obtain a long stick behind glass, you must break the glass with a hammer. [[spoiler:Fortunately, there's a parrot perch that you can use in place of the long stick.]]
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the perch isn't quite long ''enough'' to get the lemon. You ''can'', however, use it to get the hammer you'll need to break the glass and get the long stick.]]
* LawOfConservationOfDetail: Played with throughout the game. Whenever an item can be taken that turns out to be one of Titania's body parts, a new one instantly grows back.
** [[spoiler: Brobostigon]] handwaves this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in some places, though. There are doors on the First Class decks that don't go anywhere, there are ''thousands'' of cabins on the ship, but only three are of interest to you in any one playthrough, [[RealityEnsues and nothing ever plays on]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking TV channel 1]].
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* GuideDangIt: One review dubbed the game's difficulty "Impossible unless you're the author or telepathic".
**telepathic". In particular, one feature of the PET is very easily overlooked - the ability to manually enter room codes in the 'Designer Room Numbers' menu. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's necessary to use this feature to find which one First Class stateroom out of a couple hundred is of interest to you.]]
* {{Hammerspace}}: The PETinventory, natch.
**inventory. This extends to the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system; no matter the size of the item, it will always compress into a cylinder the size of a drinks can that the Succ-U-Bus can swallow. This includes everything in size from napkins through to [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror Antar Brobostigon]], [[spoiler:Antar Brobostigon, the project manager.]]
* IncrediblyLamePun: Occasionally, while you're in the bar, the parrot will interject with a Hey, Barman joke - from the ''other side of theship''. YMMV on the success of said jokes.
ship''.
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: In order to obtain a hammer, you need to press a button with a long stick. However, in order to obtain a long stick behind glass, you must break the glass with a hammer. [[spoiler:Fortunately, there's a parrot perch that you can use in place of the long stick.]]
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the perch isn't quite long ''enough'' to get the lemon. You ''can'', however, use it to get the hammer you'll need to break the glass and get the long stick.]]
*LawOfConservationOfDetail: TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Played with throughout the game. game.
** Whenever an item can be taken that turns out to be one of Titania's body parts, a new one instantly grows back.
**[[spoiler: Brobostigon]] [[spoiler:Brobostigon]] handwaves this in one of his emails: Each body part has a security chip called the "Metamor" that causes the item to change shape when removed from Titania's core.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in someplaces, though.places. There are doors on the First Class decks that don't go anywhere, there are ''thousands'' of cabins on the ship, but only three are of interest to you in any one playthrough, [[RealityEnsues and nothing ever plays on]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking TV channel 1]].
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* {{Hammerspace}}: The PET
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Occasionally, while you're in the bar, the parrot will interject with a Hey, Barman joke - from the ''other side of the
* TheKeyIsBehindTheLock: In order to obtain a hammer, you need to press a button with a long stick. However, in order to obtain a long stick behind glass, you must break the glass with a hammer. [[spoiler:Fortunately, there's a parrot perch that you can use in place of the long stick.
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** Whenever an item can be taken that turns out to be one of Titania's body parts, a new one instantly grows back.
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** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in some
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: One of the ingredients for the Titanic Titillator is Puree of Starling. [[spoiler: You get it by sucking a flock of starlings into a giant ventilation fan.]]
** It's also perfectly possible - and required - to put the Parrot into your inventory and send him through the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system.
* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt
** It's also perfectly possible - and required - to put the Parrot into your inventory and send him through the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system.
* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt
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* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: VideoGameCrueltyPotential:
** One of the ingredients for the Titanic Titillator is Puree of Starling. [[spoiler: You get it by sucking a flock of starlings into a giant ventilation fan.]]
** It'salso perfectly possible - and required - to put the Parrot into your inventory and send him through the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system.
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* LostForever: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] where it comes to the item system. It is possible to lose items in the Succ-U-Bus system, but a system exists in-game to help you recover them.
** However, if you don't replace the parrot's perch after obtaining the [[spoiler:central core]], the parrot will leave and you'll never see him again.
** Pulling the lever in the Creators' Chamber once you give it power disables the energy beams keeping the creators' busts in the air, destroying them for good.
** However, if you don't replace the parrot's perch after obtaining the [[spoiler:central core]], the parrot will leave and you'll never see him again.
** Pulling the lever in the Creators' Chamber once you give it power disables the energy beams keeping the creators' busts in the air, destroying them for good.
* PermanentlyMissableContent:
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] where it comes to the item system. It is possible to lose items in the Succ-U-Bus system, but a system exists in-game to help you recover them.
** However, if you don't replace the parrot's perch after obtaining the [[spoiler:central core]], the parrot will leave and you'll never see him again.
** Pulling the lever in the Creators' Chamber once you give it power disables the energy beams keeping the creators' busts in the air, destroying them for good.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] where it comes to the item system. It is possible to lose items in the Succ-U-Bus system, but a system exists in-game to help you recover them.
** However, if you don't replace the parrot's perch after obtaining the [[spoiler:central core]], the parrot will leave and you'll never see him again.
** Pulling the lever in the Creators' Chamber once you give it power disables the energy beams keeping the creators' busts in the air, destroying them for good.
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--> '''[=BarBot=]''': ''(while standing in front of [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]])'' "Have you found [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]] yet?"
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--> '''[=BarBot=]''': '''[=BarBot=]:''' ''(while standing in front of [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]])'' "Have you found [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]] yet?"
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** In particular, one feature of the PET is very easily overlooked - the ability to manually enter room codes in the 'Designer Room Numbers' menu. [[spoiler: It's necessary to use this feature to find which one First Class stateroom out of a couple hundred is of interest to you.]]
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** Really, the whole game has Douglas Adams' own take on this trope in spades.
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* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Once you bring the ingredients for the [=BarBot's=] cocktail to him, the mixing process fries his circuits and forces his personality to default to that of a happy drunk.
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* MadLibsDialogue: Played straight with Marsinta giving you your room number, which is generally randomized per play. Averted with Nobby in the elevator, however.
* MagicCountdown: Parodied. The bomb, once armed, would begin to audibly count down, get distracted and lose its place and have to start over. A lot.
* MagicCountdown: Parodied. The bomb, once armed, would begin to audibly count down, get distracted and lose its place and have to start over. A lot.
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* MadLibsDialogue: Played straight with Marsinta giving you your room number, which is generally randomized per play. You're presented with an extensive check-in conversation in which you carefully pick your room, what kind of breakfast and newspaper you get, what type of bed you've got, where the room is situated... and then you get slapped with a Super Galactic Traveller Class room, of which there are hundreds and they all look exactly the same. Averted with Nobby in the elevator, however.
* MagicCountdown: Parodied. The bomb, once armed, would begin to audibly count down, get distracted and lose its place and have to start over. A lot. [[spoiler:Even if you arm it and walk away, it won't actually blow up until you complete the game.]]
* MagicCountdown: Parodied. The bomb, once armed, would begin to audibly count down, get distracted and lose its place and have to start over. A lot. [[spoiler:Even if you arm it and walk away, it won't actually blow up until you complete the game.]]
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* AchillesHeel: The Maître d'Bot has one, and it must be prodded repeatedly before he will let you look at [[spoiler: Scraliontis' corpse.]]
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* AchillesHeel: The Maître d'Bot has one, and it an "Achilles' Buttock," which must be prodded repeatedly before he will let you look at [[spoiler: Scraliontis' corpse.]]
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* {{Hammerspace}}: The PET inventory, natch.
** This extends to the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system; no matter the size of the item, it will always compress into a cylinder the size of a drinks can that the Succ-U-Bus can swallow. This includes everything in size from napkins through to [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror Antar Brobostigon]], the project manager.]]
** This extends to the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system; no matter the size of the item, it will always compress into a cylinder the size of a drinks can that the Succ-U-Bus can swallow. This includes everything in size from napkins through to [[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror Antar Brobostigon]], the project manager.]]
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in some places, though. There are doors on the First Class decks that don't go anywhere, there are ''thousands'' of cabins on the ship, but only three are of interest to you in any one playthrough, [[RealityEnsues and nothing ever plays on]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking TV channel 1]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: The game originally came on three [=CDs.=] CD 3 is generally only used for the opening and the ending of the game, but once you reach First Class, this starts happening a lot, as all of the First Class areas - including the Bar, which is a Second Class area - require a change over to CD 1.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: The game originally came on three [=CDs.=] CD 3 is generally only used for the opening and the ending of the game, but once you reach First Class, this starts happening a lot, as all of the First Class areas - including the Bar, which is a Second Class area - require a change over to CD 1.
--> '''Marsinta:''' Don't get drunk in the bar, don't annoy the musicians, don't fiddle with the pellerator, don't touch the artwork, and if you go up to the promenade deck, don't scuff the woodwork. There you are, and it's better than you deserve. Lousy freeloaders.
** Naturally, you end up doing all of this anyway.
** Naturally, you end up doing all of this anyway.
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* PollyWantsAMicrophone: There is a talking parrot on board, located in the unfinished ballroom. It belonged to one of the people building the ship.
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* PollyWantsAMicrophone: There is a talking parrot on board, located in the unfinished ballroom. It belonged to one of the people building the ship. He also apparently has an (invisible) microphone, as he can on occasion be heard cracking jokes whilst you're on the other side of the ship.
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--> '''Marsinta''': Well, you certainly won't like the room you've got, then!
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** The only occupants of the First Class Restaurant are the Maître d'Bot and [[spoiler:Scraliontis]], but the bot will ''insist'' that every single table is busy.
* RealityEnsues: In order to get the parrot to move, you have to [[spoiler:bribe him with [[ImAHumanitarian chicken]]. It's fairly easy to grab a chicken from the lower decks and carry it all the way to the parrot, but by the time you get there it's cold, and [[SarcasmMode obviously]] the parrot doesn't like cold chicken...]]
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* TemptingFate: ''Starship [[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong.''
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* TemptingFate: ''Starship [[MeaningfulName Titanic]], The ship that cannot possibly go wrong.'''' Both Fentible and Marsinta comment on the irony, the former with embarrassment, the latter with derision.
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** It's also perfectly possible - and required - to send the Parrot through the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system.
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** It's also perfectly possible - and required - to send put the Parrot into your inventory and send him through the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system.
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* LongList: [[http://web.archive.org/web/20090211175400/http://starlightlines.com/eng_succubus.html The list of items pulled out of the Succ-U-Bus system]] on the [[AllThereInTheManual Starlight Lines engineering log]]. [[NoodleIncident These include:]]
-->1,271 items of wearing apparel\\
1 small ambassador\\
1 copy "Bluffers' Guide to Control Engineering" (battered)\\
1 death threat from Save The Nauga Association (unsigned)\\
1 bundle love letters (Authenticated sender: [[SickeninglySweethearts Your tinky-winky Frou-Frou sugar-wugar kissy-poo]], presumed to be an alias)\\
1 showgirl from the Hotel Gat Girls Girls Girls Tropicana Lounge 'n' Bar Girls Girls Girls (bewildered but stoical)
-->1,271 items of wearing apparel\\
1 small ambassador\\
1 copy "Bluffers' Guide to Control Engineering" (battered)\\
1 death threat from Save The Nauga Association (unsigned)\\
1 bundle love letters (Authenticated sender: [[SickeninglySweethearts Your tinky-winky Frou-Frou sugar-wugar kissy-poo]], presumed to be an alias)\\
1 showgirl from the Hotel Gat Girls Girls Girls Tropicana Lounge 'n' Bar Girls Girls Girls (bewildered but stoical)
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* MultipleEndings: Depending on whether or not you [[spoiler:disarmed the bomb or not.]]
** There is a [[DummiedOut third ending in the game files]] with fireworks, implied to be the 'good' end (where the available endings are the 'neutral' and 'bad' endings).
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: According to the credits no starlings were harmed in the creation of the game.
* NobodyPoops: At least, nobody of the upper classes, anyway. There are toilets in the Super Galactic Traveller Class rooms ([[{{Squick}} which double as clothes washers]]) but conspicuously absent throughout the rest of the ship, including in the Second and First Class rooms.
** There is a [[DummiedOut third ending in the game files]] with fireworks, implied to be the 'good' end (where the available endings are the 'neutral' and 'bad' endings).
* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: According to the credits no starlings were harmed in the creation of the game.
* NobodyPoops: At least, nobody of the upper classes, anyway. There are toilets in the Super Galactic Traveller Class rooms ([[{{Squick}} which double as clothes washers]]) but conspicuously absent throughout the rest of the ship, including in the Second and First Class rooms.
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* StarshipLuxurious: Of course, since it's a cruise ship in space.
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* StarshipLuxurious: Of course, since it's a cruise ship in space. [[WordOfGod Developer quotes in the strategy guide]] say they were intentionally trying to make the interior look like a hotel rather than a spaceship.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The website for Starlight Travel, the company that supposedly built the Starship Titanic (now defunct but [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070711102210/http://www.starlightlines.com/cgi-bin/front.cgi available on the Internet Archive]]), contains some concept art, design plans, maintenance reports, Brobostigon's diary, and even a calculator for various currencies in the Starship Titanic universe.
** The maintenance reports range from routine inspections and inter-company bickering all the way through to {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.
---> '''Opportunity''': Navoplex test run parametrically satisfactory but whining noise heard after system shutdown.\\
'''Action''': Yossa gan Hoorg[[note]]Navigation Systems engineer[[/note]] removed from Bridge area. Whining noise ceased.
** The maintenance reports range from routine inspections and inter-company bickering all the way through to {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.
---> '''Opportunity''': Navoplex test run parametrically satisfactory but whining noise heard after system shutdown.\\
'''Action''': Yossa gan Hoorg[[note]]Navigation Systems engineer[[/note]] removed from Bridge area. Whining noise ceased.
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* BlatantLies: Any and all of the approving comments made by the [=DeskBot=] in regards to your [=SGT=] stateroom.
--> '''Marsinta''': Well, you certainly won't like the room you've got, then!
--> '''Marsinta''': Well, you certainly won't like the room you've got, then!
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** Also, the [[spoiler:Third Class chicken delivery system and the Maître d'Bot's arms.]]
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** This is {{Lampshaded}} by [[WordOfGod one of the programmers]] in the strategy guide:
---> '''Adam Shaikh''' (programmer): "'Well, obviously, the parrot will only eat chicken without tomato sauce - it would be stupid otherwise.' These were not the thoughts of a normal person."
---> '''Adam Shaikh''' (programmer): "'Well, obviously, the parrot will only eat chicken without tomato sauce - it would be stupid otherwise.' These were not the thoughts of a normal person."
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* ObviousBeta: InUniverse, this is the state of some parts of the ship. In particular, the ballroom is full of scaffolding, and the accessible area of the Promenade Deck is tiny, the rest of it being undecked and otherwide unfinished.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: Occasionally, while you're in the bar, the parrot will interject with a Hey, Barman joke - from the ''other side of the ship''. YMMV on the success of said jokes.
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** However, if you don't replace the parrot's perch after obtaining the [[spoiler:central core]], the parrot will leave and you'll never see him again.
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* ObstructiveCodeOfConduct: PlayedForLaughs in the pellerator, where just about the only thing that ''is'' allowed is standing or sitting with a perfectly passive expression.
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* PlayerNudge: All over the place.
--> ''(fiddling with a bowl of liquorice)'' Not a bowl of pistachio nuts.
--> '''[=BarBot=]''': ''(while standing in front of [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]])'' "Have you found [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]] yet?"
--> ''(fiddling with a bowl of liquorice)'' Not a bowl of pistachio nuts.
--> '''[=BarBot=]''': ''(while standing in front of [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]])'' "Have you found [[spoiler:Titania's vision centre]] yet?"
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** It's also perfectly possible - and required - to send the Parrot through the Succ-U-Bus item delivery system.
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* CuttingTheKnot: One of the four main elevators isn't working, and one of the puzzles is figuring out how to access it. The [[GuideDangit official strategy guide]] advises you to [[spoiler:use other lifts to hoist the broken one to the top.]] It's far easier just to [[spoiler:work out which floor the elevator's on and take another one there.]]
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: The nature of the warnings on the [[RuleofThree three]] inspection hatches to a fuse box:
--> [[SchmuckBait Danger unbelievably high voltage!!!]] No user servicable parts inside.\\
You really shouldn't have opened the first inspection plate!!! This is not only fantastically dangerous, but you are [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking voiding your warranty]].\\
[[IWarnedYou Don't say you weren't warned!!!]]
--> [[SchmuckBait Danger unbelievably high voltage!!!]] No user servicable parts inside.\\
You really shouldn't have opened the first inspection plate!!! This is not only fantastically dangerous, but you are [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking voiding your warranty]].\\
[[IWarnedYou Don't say you weren't warned!!!]]
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* FeaturelessProtagonist: We only have the Robots' assurance that we're even human. Nobby addressing you as 'Sir' may imply that you're male.
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* FeaturelessProtagonist: We only have the Robots' assurance that we're even human. Nobby addressing you as 'Sir' may imply that you're male.male; then again, he just as often refers to you as "Sir, Madam or Thing".
* LostForever: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] where it comes to the item system. It is possible to lose items in the Succ-U-Bus system, but a system exists in-game to help you recover them.
* RecursiveReality: After inserting a disc into your computer to start the game, one of the things you must then do is insert a Starship Titanic disc into your computer to start the game.
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* HeelRealization: As he is unable to communicate with Earthlings, Levonius can only pass time in his cell in Oxfordshire police station by pondering his life, and comes to realization about how much of a bad person he has become.
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* HeelRealization: As he is unable to communicate with Earthlings, Levonius Leovinus can only pass time in his cell in Oxfordshire police station by pondering his life, and comes to realization about how much of a bad person he has become.
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* InsuranceFraud: Starship's investors Scraliontis and Brobostignon arranged the ship's disappearance and upcoming detonation to collect its insurance money, as its massive scale proved to be a financial failure. This is also hinted at in the game's emails.
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* InsuranceFraud: Starship's investors Scraliontis and Brobostignon Brobostigon arranged the ship's disappearance and upcoming detonation to collect its insurance money, as its massive scale proved to be a financial failure. This is also hinted at in the game's emails.
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* FakeArmDisarm: Leovinus and Scraliontis used two of the Maître D-bot's limbs to fight each other, and eventually smashed the whole thing apart when landing on it. This didn't affect the robot much, though, as he can still wiggle his components even when separated. Played straighter in the game when you have to actually steal his arms, and get him to relax to let go of the things they're holding.
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* GratuitousFrench: The Maitre'd-bot does this almost every time he talks to you.
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* SpoilerCover: It had a strange twist on this: one particular puzzle, in the Music Room, can be easily solved by looking at the back of the game box, where the screenshot of that room shows the puzzle completed. However, this isn't a spoiler... it's the correct, and ''only'', way to complete the puzzle.
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* SpoilerCover: It had a strange twist on this: one particular puzzle, in the Music Room, can be easily solved by looking at the back of the game box, where the screenshot of that room shows the puzzle completed. However, this isn't a spoiler... it's the correct, and ''only'', correct way to complete the puzzle.puzzle, apart from the easy-to-miss fabric pattern of two chairs in the same room.
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* MadLibsDialogue: Played straight with Marsinta giving you your room number, which is generally randomized per play. Averted with Nobby in the elevator, however.
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* OldSoldier: The [=LiftBot=]. ShoutOut to real life - ex-servicemen lift operators used to be a common sight in the UK.
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* OldSoldier: The Nobby, the [=LiftBot=]. ShoutOut to real life - ex-servicemen lift operators used to be a common sight in the UK.
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* {{Feelies}}: The game originally came packaged with a pair of 3D red/blue glasses and a physical copy of the ''Super-Galactic Traveler Magazine''.
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* [[AchillesHeel Achilles]] [[spoiler: [[AchillesHeel Buttock]]]]: The Maître d'Bot has one, and it must be prodded repeatedly before he will let you look at [[spoiler: Scraliontis' corpse.]]
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* [[AchillesHeel Achilles]] [[spoiler: [[AchillesHeel Buttock]]]]: AchillesHeel: The Maître d'Bot has one, and it must be prodded repeatedly before he will let you look at [[spoiler: Scraliontis' corpse.]]
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* SpoilerCover: It had a strange twist on this: one particular puzzle, in the Music Room, can be easily solved by looking at the back of the game box, where the screenshot of that room shows the puzzle completed. However, this isn't a spoiler... it's the correct, and ''only'', way to complete the puzzle.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Scraliontis]] falls to his death when he makes the mistake on leaning on a railing when attacked by the parrot, as they were poorly made due to cutting corners in the starship's development to "finish" it.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Scraliontis]] falls to his death when he makes the mistake on of leaning on a railing when attacked by the parrot, as they were poorly made due to cutting corners in the starship's development to "finish" it.
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See [[http://forums.techguy.org/games/877759-running-starship-titanic-windows-7-a.html this post]] if you're trying to run the game on windows 7. (Though be aware that the patches for versions 1.00.42a and 1.00.42b will no longer be available on Starship Titanic's main site. They can still be accessed through their archived versions [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070102072635/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142atoc.zip here for a]] and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061230212710/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142btoc.zip here for b]])
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See [[http://forums.techguy.org/games/877759-running-starship-titanic-windows-7-a.html this post]] if you're trying to run the game on windows 7. (Though be aware that the patches for versions 1.00.42a and 1.00.42b will no longer be available on Starship Titanic's main site. They can still be accessed through their archived versions [[http://web.archive.org/web/20070102072635/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142atoc.zip here for a]] and [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061230212710/http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/extras/st142btoc.zip here for b]])
b]]) Also available at [[http://www.gog.com/game/starship_titanic gog.com]] if you don't like the hassle.
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* {{AFGNCAAP}}: We only have the Robots' assurance that we're even human. Nobby addressing you as 'Sir' may imply that you're male.
* FasterThanLightTravel: Which allows a ship from the other side of the galaxy to crash into your house.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: We only have the Robots' assurance that we're even human. Nobby addressing you as 'Sir' may imply that you're male.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: We only have the Robots' assurance that we're even human. Nobby addressing you as 'Sir' may imply that you're male.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
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* FasterThanLightTravel: Which allows a ship from the other side of the galaxy to crash into your house.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
* FunWithAcronyms: '''P'''ersonal '''E'''lectronic '''T'''hing, a combination of keyring, BagOfHolding, remote control, staff pager and conversation log.
** Also '''S'''pontaneous '''M'''assive '''E'''xistance '''F'''ailure. The ship sailed from its space dock with great fanfare and promptly vanished.
