To stop the engineer from preventing the accident, without which life on Earth could not begin, Richard, Reg, and Dirk travel to Somerset in 1797. Dirk, pretending to be the "person from Porlock", interrupts Coleridge at work. This action prevents the poem (containing the necessary information on how to repair the ship) being finished and severs the critical link between Michael and the ghost. Reg retains some pity for the engineer, and so travels back to the accident once more. He transports the crew off the landing craft just before the explosion and brings them to the mothership, enabling them to continue on their quest elsewhere.
To stop the engineer from preventing the accident, without which life on Earth could not begin, Richard, Reg, and Dirk travel to Somerset in 1797. Dirk, pretending to be the "person from Porlock", interrupts Coleridge at work. This action prevents the poem (containing the necessary information on how to repair the ship) being finished and severs the critical link between Michael and the ghost. Reg retains some pity for the engineer, and so travels back to the accident once more. He transports the crew off the landing craft just before the explosion and brings them to the mothership enabling them to continue on their quest elsewhere.