MAX Kid, knock it off! TRISTAN (Finally puts his phone down) Okay! Fine, whatever. I hear... you, Uncle Max. So they're trimming some of the dead wood off of the show, so what? I hang in for another year or two, jump to feature films and hop off before the ship hits the iceberg. Easy peasy. BARBARA It's not that simple, dear. They're... MAX. ’ ‘You couldn’t really have been in love with him, could you?’ ‘I thought that I was and I told him that I loved him and he said that he loved me too.’ ‘Did you make love to him?’ ‘Yes. I was your age at the time and I thought that I was being so mature in giving myself to him totally. Now of course I realise just how silly I was. Don’t get me wrong, he was a very good lover, but I was much too young for that sort of involvement.’ ‘But women are maturing much younger these days.’ ‘Physically. It was impossible for him to stand over the toilet and pee; instead he had to hope his stream was powerful enough to reach the bowl. Paul felt the restroom was obviously designed by a dwarf for other dwarfs and this was their way of getting even in a larger world.To make it even worse, regardless of how many times he'd flown, the idea of being encased in an aluminum envelope and then shot across the skies did not seem to him to be something man was meant to do. Paul subscribed to the theory if. ”The man was interrupted by the perfect diction of a computer.“FORTY-SEVEN MINUTES TO CORE BREACH”“Exactly,” Paul noted. “Now get.”Naoko found that she couldn’t speak, so she also nodded before walking into the escape pod and closing the hatch behind her. It would take over a minute to reach the only docked ship, the Fast Enough. This was the ship in which the experimental new warp coil was to have been installed, the ship which it had been hoped would then be fast enough to take humanity to.