When Christopher Pike first gave me his ship, he had me recite the Captain""s Oath, words I didn""t appreciate at the time.She tells Mammy:I""m too young to be a widow.She weeps to her mother, not about the loss of her husband, but about her boring future and the prospect of wearing black: "My life is over.On the platform, Joe (Josephine), in a falsetto voice, introduces them to bandleader Sweet Sue and manager Beinstock: "We""re he new girls.The title also referred to the awakening of an uncommitted, ""sleeping"" Rip Van Winkle (or Lazarus) character to a dystopic world 200 years into the future in the year 2173, who faced being ""woken up"" emotionally and politically to aid in a revolutionary rebellion against authoritarianism (in the form of a lobotomized Leader).