Intergalactic Starship Commander Iargula McEaspog was a vainglorious sort of Intergalactic Starship Commander.

Who had an answer for everything.

Which is why he calmly addressed his panicked first officer after the asteroid impact.

‘In space exploration, as in life, everyone has a special friend’, he explained, ‘whose purpose is to look after present me. And their name is past me.’

‘The fuel tanks have ruptured!’

‘And that’ explained Iargula, ‘is why past me supervised the construction of a reserve tank.’

‘But it was never finished, we’re doomed!’

‘And that’, explained  Iargula, ‘is because past me was a very busy person.’