Possible Clues:

• Strikes
• Hits hard, Biblical-style
• It strikes one that there's very little in the ship
• Strikes down, in the Bible
• Wallops, old-style
• Strikes down, as God
• Hits, biblically speaking
• Clobbers
• It strikes you that it could be too small to be in the ship
• In the ship it's about time one strikes