Dark Star Page #3

if we really wanted to

we could fix up the sleeping

quarters like they were before.

Then we could sleep on

ulamatic bunks again.

Say guys, why don't we fix up the

sleeping quarters so we can have

decent place to sleep again?

All we'd have to do is patch up the hole

in the ship and pump some air back in.

- Shut up Pinback!

- Oh, have it your own way!

For your listening enjoyment,

we now present the

Moonlight melodies of Martin Segundo

and the Scintilla Strings.

Our first selection is

the perennial favorite

When Twilight Falls on

NGC 891.

Damn it!!

Now what's the matter with him?

Talby.

Here's some breakfast.

You know, Talby, you really ought

To eat with the rest of us.

You spend too much time up here.

I like it up here.

Must get lonely being

up here so much.

I don't like to go below since

Commander Powell died.

I feel too enclosed down there.

Well you should spend some more

time below though, I mean...

You know, you should see

more of the rest of the ship.

See, I can watch things

Up here, Doolittle.

I love to watch things,

just stare at the planets

meteors, gas clusters and asteroids...

You'll have plenty of time for that,

later, though.

I mean, think of it this way:

We've been in space for

twenty years now, right?

And we've only aged

three years...

so there'll be plenty of time

later on for staring around.

You know, Doolittle,

if we're going into the Veil Nebula,

we may actually find a strange

And beautiful thing...

the Phoenix Asteroid.

They should be passing

through there about now.

Phoenix Asteroid?

Never heard of 'em.

They're a body of asteroids

that circle the universe...

once every 12.3 trillion years.

The Phoenix Asteroid...

From what I've heard, Doolittle,

they glow...

glow with all the colors

of the rainbow.

Nobody knows why.

They just glow as they

drift around the universe.

The Phoenix Asteroid.

You know what I think

about, Talby?

It's funny, I...

I kind of sit around a lot,

you know, a lot of time to myself.

I can't talk to the others,

but with time to myself,

I can think about back home,

back home at Malibu.

I used to surf a lot, Talby.

I used to be a great surfer.

The waves at Malibu and Zuma are

so fantastic in the springs Talby.

I can remember running down on the

beach on those early spring mornings

with my surf board and a wet suit...

The waves would really be peaking,

you know, high and glassy.

Ya hit that water.

Before you know it, you're coming down

right off of one of those walls

and you're just ridin' perfect.

You know, I guess I miss the waves

and my board more than anything.

That's the lid to the heating unit.

You're not supposed

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