increasingly unstable.
We've got to get Karl
to the observation dome.
Give him a little surprise
I brought back for him.
Attention. Dimension drive
recharge is now complete.
Time to emergencyjump activation:
ten minutes and counting.
Attention. Extensive damage to
dimensional stabilisation chamber.
Dimensional stabilisation units
two, three, four,
five, six and seven now inoperable.
Time to dimensionjump:
nine minutes, counting.
Locate object removed
from quarantine bay.
- We detonate this thing, chances are...
- Either way, it doesn't get back home.
Almost.
Almost...
Say goodbye, Karl!
Warning. Extreme atmospheric loss.
All crew, evacuate area.
Midship corridorairlocks
will seal in 20 seconds.
Danger. All crew, evacuate area.
Two minutes to
dimensionjump activation.
Dimensional stabilisation
chamber sterilising.
Warning. Ninth-dimensional matteris now
responding to gravity ofblue giant sun.
A ninth-dimensional reaction would
spread in all directions in the universe.
- Specify.
- The reaction would continue.
The resulting supernova would
likely reach Earh in 51 years.
lt could either destroy life on Earh
or enable humankind to achieve
a new level ofexistence.
There's just the one DSU left,
so I'm staying and you're going.
No.
- Yes.
- We can go together.
I'm staying with you - or you get in this
DSU with me and we take our chances.
So either we both die or we end up
a genetic experiment gone bad?
We'll see. Your choice - inside or out?
This is crazy.
I appreciate that fact!
Attention. One minute to
dimensionjump activation.
- I can think of worse ways to die.
- Don't be so negative.
Before all the trouble started
I thought this was all you had in mind!
Given the circumstances, I'm afraid
my performance will be lacking.
Danger. Ninth-dimensional matter
now reaching critical mass.
- Oh, no.
- Ten, nine, eight.
Four, three, two, one.
Dimensionjump complete.
Dimensional stabilisation
chamber now sterilising.
Please note: body proximity
during dimensionjump
has resulted in
a two per cent transfer
ofgenetic material.
Are my eyes...?
Post-dimensionjump profile.
Cardiovascular condition: excellent.
Blood analysis: normal.
Nervous system response: optimal.
And, Kaela, there's something else.
- Yes, Sweetie?
- You're going to have a child.
A girl.
Congratulations.
And welcome home.Benjamin.
Benjamin?
- What's wrong?
- Nothing's wrong.
- Then why did you wake me?
- I was running a test.
But we didn't schedule any tests.
I was running a test
to perform an unscheduled test.
- What? Why?
- Please. Be more specific, Benjamin.
Why did you want to wake me
and perform an unscheduled test?
Wanting is a human emotion,
and not within my capability.
- I know that.
- Benjamin.
Can we play chess now?
Tom and Jerry: catharsis and cathexis.
AJ Marley. Dissertation
for doctorate - anthropology.
Begin recording, captain.
This animated animosity regularly served
as a collective catharsis for the masses.
When violent animation
was banned by statutory law
at the beginning of the 21st century,
the subsequent idealised and
seemingly benign cartoon creatures
unharnessed a human malevolence,
and a reverse social polarity was...
Would you like some music
before we begin, Copilot Vanzant?
- Whatever you like.
- How's this, Copilot Vanzant?
Confirming identity and status.
Age: 32. Release from Hazen
rehabilitation: six months.
Pilot's licence restored.
Work probation:
deep space rescue and recovery.
Reflex quotient: 1.5. Stress limit: minus 4.
You'll have to work on
those numbers, Nick.
- Neuroscan's fine.
- Good.
- What happened to your robot?
- Nothing.
Really? Hope "nothing"
doesn't happen to me.
The captain's big on
20th century cultural artefacts,
so we did him up as
a World War One fighter pilot.
We do things like that just to amuse each
other. Everyone tries to get along here.
- I get along fine.
- You've been on board