1 Spanners: Well, we're not dead yet. Er... no offence, Paris. Let's try to restore power.
2 Serron: Yeah! Good idea! Paris?
3 Paris: What? I can't do that from the bridge. There are manual circuit-breakers that need to be reset. By someone corporeal.
4 Serron: Where are they?
4 Spanners: In the cargo hold.

I've received a startling number of e-mails and seen a lot of forum and LiveJournal posts where people are wondering about the power failure and its apparent lack of effect on Paris. That would be because Paris is a ghost, not a hologram. Last time I checked, ghosts didn't require a power source...

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2016-03-19 Rerun commentary: Wow, the colour balance of the star background really changes between panels here. Nowadays I'd fix that.

Given how many bright stars there are out there, there should be a bit of light illuminating the bridge.