[The Dwarfers acquire a time travel device, testing it out by sending the ship to the year 1421]
Give us visual. Let's see what it's like out there.
Okay, punching it up.
[They see nothing but empty space]
Hey, I don't get it! We're still where we were!
Of course. We're still in deep space, sir, only now we're in deep space in the 15th century. Isn't it wonderful?
So we're still three million years away from Earth?
Well, yes.
[sighs] Taking her back to the present.
Keyed in. Engage.
[They go forward in time]
So forgive me if I'm being thicker than the offspring of a village idiot and a TV weather girl, but what was the point of that little exercise? Fun though it was, drinking in the heady medieval atmosphere of pre-Renaissance deep space, the drive is next to useless, yes?
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