Harry Booth

### **Appearance**

Bulky, careworn face, gray hair, mustachioed, black eyebrows, blue eyes, gray uniform

### **Occupation**

One of Dan's crew members
Journalist

### **Allies**

Dan Holland, Charlie Pizer, Alex Durant, Kate McCrae, V.I.N.CENT, B.O.B.

### **Enemies**

Hans Reinhardt, Maximilian, Sentry Robots

### **Quote**

*It's right out of Dante's Inferno!* (Reaction to the holograph image of the Black Hole.)

“*Collided with him would be a more accurate description.*”
―Harry describing Dr. Hans Reinhart

**Harrison G. 'Harry' Booth** is the USS Palomino's resident journalist.

## Background

It was mentioned by Reinhardt that Harry was writing for a newpaper, the name not specified. Harry is an elderly man and sometimes ambitious and appears to care only for himself.

## In the movie

Booth first exclamation was regarding the black hole, calling it right out of Dante's Inferno! After the USS Cygnus was identified, Booth recounted how he collided with Dr. Hans Reinhardt and how that scientist influenced the space appropriations committee to get founding and how the scientist apparently refused an order to return to earth once the Cygnus failed to find life in space.

Booth is shown to have mechanical abilities as he helped the rest of the Palomino crew fix the ship while it was damaged by the immense force of the black hole. Once meeting Reinhardt on the bridge of the Cygnus, Harry remarked that the scientist had a theatrical way of greeting people. Booth questioned Reinhardt what happened when the Cygnus' mission was cancelled but Reinhard took his time to answer and used Booth's description of him back at the journalist. Booth astutely noted that the Cygnus was not damaged as claimed but Reinhardt gave him a simple answer. Not satisfied with Reinhardt's story and getting very curious, Booth slipped away from the tour the eccentric scientist gave to him and the two Palomino scientist. Alone, Booth encountered a huge garden a a single humanoid. Booth repeatedly questioned the humanoid but realized it could not speak at all. The humanoid left and Booth chased after it, then spotted it limping.

At dinner time with the Palomino crew, Reinhardt learnt Booth and Holland were alone sneaking around his ship and told them not to anymore unless authorised and escorted. Reinhardt questioned the journalist and it was revealed Booth was writing for the same paper, leading Reinhardt to remark nothing changes on Earth. Once the Palomino crew learnt that Reinhardt planned to travel through and beyond the black hole, Harry exclaimed that was crazy but Reinhardt retorted, saying 'crazy' is only in the dictionaries of fools. Alone, Booth repeated his description of the mad scientist and recounted the enormous garden he saw and the limping robot. Booth thought there was a human underneath. He devised a plan to commander the Cygnus and bring it back to earth but Holland replied they all would be dead. After V.I.N.CENT used ESP to inform Dr. McCrae Holland and Pizer were required back at the Palomino, Booth decided to follow them.

There, they learnt from B.O.B. the truth about the Cygnus. Booth shocked, had to ask B.O.B. again and his suspicions came true: there really was a human being under those cloaked figures. Holland wanted to try Harry's plan but now Harry said it was unworkable and V.I.N.CENT said he had to destroy two Sentry robots. The rest of them returned to the Palomino. Reinhardt bluffed the crew that Drs Durramt and McCrae wished to stay with him, causing Harry to exclaim he placed Durrant under a spell. When Holland learnt that Kate was taken the the medical facility, he ordered Charlie and Booth to stay on the Palomino, Harry kept pleading for Pizer to lift off with Reinhardt turning to the black hole but the First Officer refused. When Dan and the others were trapped by Sentry robots, Pizer and Booth headed down to aid them. Booth apparently fell, and Pizer told him to return. In fact, Booth was bluffing: he was aiming to save himself. However, not trained as a space pilot, he lost control of the Palomino and Reinhardt, seeing an apparent collision, ordered Maximilian to fire at the Palomino. The Palomino was destroyed, killing Booth.