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Commander Hayes to the Sisyphus.

Oh, yeah, son.

Oh, no, just the bridge.

If I could just have somebody on the bridge.

Can I stay in on it, though?

I'm so bored in sickbay.

How's it going down there, Corbe? No, it's going all right. Something amazing is down here.

I'm among the ruins of this civilization and there is a device, I guess you could say. It's kind of a window.

And you can look through it and see alternate paths you could have gone down. And I just want to know if anyone wanted to peek in before the planet is destroyed by the supernova. Yeah. Alternate paths you could have gone down? Yeah. If you've never done something, you can look through the window and see if you have done it. Oh, my gosh. This is something that I try to do in my spare time anyway when I'm engaging in regret. It's totally a waste of time when you do it in your head, but there's a window where it works. We're on our way. I don't know. That sounds super interesting, but I think I'll stay up on the ship and see if something equally interesting happens up here. And I'm staying with my friend.

Thank you, Spot.

Corbo, this is the bridge that we missed like the last two minutes of that transmission.

Could you just tell us all that again?

Oh, no, just Escalorum and Zarlene.

They were listening.

They answered the call.

All right. Oh, man. So frustrating. You know, listening, they answered the call. All right.

Oh, man.

So frustrating.

You know, I try to do the right thing.

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