Pirates Dinner Adventure traditionally pits Princess Anita against pirate captain Sebastian the Black, but now arises the sort of existential threat that puts petty political concerns into perspective: the Loch Ness Monster, presumably summering in the Caribbean. Will they join forces to preserve themselves? Or will it be a free-for-all? One thinks optimistically of Reagan’s famous 1987 speech to the U.N.: “Perhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.” Sure, it’s a night of out-of-this-world entertainment—or out-of-the-generally-visited-parts-of-this-world, anyway. But consider the larger lesson—pirate or princess, we’re still just people.