Max Capricorn cruise liners claims to be the fastest, the farthest, the best and have been going for 176 years. If one million pounds is roughly worth the same as fifty million credits then that 5000 credit phone bill that the Van Hoffs will need to spend twenty years paying off is only about ВЈ100. The intact side of the ship we see fly over Buckingham Palace is the same side we earlier saw massively damaged. How does the Doctor take over the Host? He says they recognise him as the next highest authority after Max dies, but they think he's just a stowaway and have orders to kill him. If Max is able to just turn off the engines from inside his box, why bother paying off the Captain to deliberately attract a meteor shower? Also, why does he even need to be on the ship in the first place? The Doctor says that he's always wanted to say вЂњtake me to your leaderвЂќ, which he's said several times before (most recently in Aliens of London). Notably there's only eight minutes to crash before the Doctor is taken to deck 31, and he is only able to stop it after defeating Max and then making his way to the bridge.

It takes a surprisingly short amount of time to travel around the ship.

The ship's deck display appears to only show 12 decks. That rickety little bridge over the reactor suddenly becomes a lot more solid when everyone's defending themselves from the Host's halos. Goofs: Why are the meteors shown with trails? Before they enter the atmosphere they're simply lumps of rock.ДЄccording to The Empty Child, the red alert should have been a mauve alert.

Ship of the damned short story