Tasha: Yeah, what is this; Hooray For Will's Penis Day? Riker: Ladies, please. Every day is Hooray For Will's Penis Day. Picard: Could everybody stop repeatedly saying the word "penis", please? Some of us are trying to make a nice cup of tea.
And Chapter 43 has this line:
Riker: Well, now that the Yar marriage has been saved, perhaps we could turn our attentions to the less pressing issue of the destruction of all life on Earth.
Chapter 2 in general. Have to recalibrate the wurly wurdles!
Not so surprisingly: in her other life Mistress Scibbles is Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch, a comedy writer who has written for Horrible Histories, The News Quiz and published her own comedy-fantasy series The Darkwood Series.
Complete Monster: The bomber, credited as "Young Man", derails a rollercoaster with an explosion and kills several of the riders, teenagers included, and later causes a deadly fire at a dark ride. The bomber threatens to keep causing disasters at amusement parks unless he is paid a million dollars. When he receives the money, but it turns out to be marked, he decides to bomb another rollercoaster anyway as an act of revenge. When the first bomb he tries to use is deactivated, he gets another one to continue. When he is caught, he threatens to detonate the bomb unless the FBI let him go.
Hate Sink: The filmmakers were originally going to include a scene of the young man on the phone with his mother, to establish a motive behind his plot, namely to get the money from larger amusements parks that were forcing his parents' small family-owned amusement park out of business. The filmmakers decided that the movie was more suspenseful if the motive behind the young man's actions were never known. It would also keep the audience from sympathizing with the young man's situation.
