Aug 7, 2026 · 52 min · 7 segments
The Doctor continues his research and attempt to save the star-eating creature. Music Credits: Intro: 1969 - Murray Gold Working Hours: Fish Custard - Murray Gold Chilling Out (Brighter): A…
Over the course of the next few days, he'd be like, I'm surprised you want to kill it considering this is the opportunity of a lifetime.
You can write papers about this thing basically forever and have all the notoriety you'd ever want.
If this thing survives, you'll be the person to go to for a unique one-of-a-kind species.
You'd be the specialist.
You could get your dream assignment on any ship that you wanted, etc., etc., Just, like, stuff like that over the course of a few days.
Alright.
A lot of these remarks sound kind of off-handed, so he doesn't necessarily reply to each one of them individually.
But after a point, you hit, like, a critical mass of probing, and he responds, Look, Doctor.
I get what you're trying to do and I get what you're saying.
Really, I do.
I am curious, I'll confess, but.
This.
This thing has killed so many people and my curiosity, my career.
It's not worth it.
If this if this shit is going to keep happening.
I can't justify it.
Yeah,
but to just...
Like I said, if we can't find a different way to handle the situation, sure.
Okay.
I tried my best and... failed.
But...
Wouldn't you rather... not be responsible for... destruction of a unique one of a kind thing if at all possible if at all possible if you could redirect this thing into making it go where you want to go instead wouldn't that sit better with you like
i look yeah i get it i get it it would be nice It would sit better with me, I guess.
But, like...
Over the course of the next few days, he'd be like, I'm surprised you want to kill it considering this is the opportunity of a lifetime.
You can write papers about this thing basically forever and have all the notoriety you'd ever want.
If this thing survives, you'll be the person to go to for a unique one-of-a-kind species.
You'd be the specialist.
You could get your dream assignment on any ship that you wanted, etc., etc., Just, like, stuff like that over the course of a few days.
Alright.
A lot of these remarks sound kind of off-handed, so he doesn't necessarily reply to each one of them individually.
But after a point, you hit, like, a critical mass of probing, and he responds, Look, Doctor.
I get what you're trying to do and I get what you're saying.
Really, I do.
I am curious, I'll confess, but.
This.
This thing has killed so many people and my curiosity, my career.
It's not worth it.
If this if this shit is going to keep happening.
I can't justify it.
Yeah,
but to just...
Like I said, if we can't find a different way to handle the situation, sure.
Okay.
I tried my best and... failed.
But...
Wouldn't you rather... not be responsible for... destruction of a unique one of a kind thing if at all possible if at all possible if you could redirect this thing into making it go where you want to go instead wouldn't that sit better with you like
i look yeah i get it i get it it would be nice It would sit better with me, I guess.
But, like...
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