The Doctor and Co-Pilot in “The Horns of Nimon”

Have you noticed how people's intellectual curiosity begins to decline the moment they start waving guns about?

Can you make it work?!

Yes. Oh yes, I can make it work. The question is, can we generate power soon enough to take the ship to escape velocity before we fall into a black hole with an event horizon.

What?

Shush. You just hold the gun steady. Don't tax your mind.