Dr. Morbius \u2013 Young man, my daughter is going to be terribly punished for what she just said.<\/p>\n
J J Adams \u2013 Dr Morbius, don\u2019t you understand it\u2019s your subconscious that is responsible for all this death and destruction?<\/p>\n
Dr. Morbius \u2013 What, me harm my own daughter.<\/p>\n
J J Adams \u2013 Well, look at those gages.\u00a0 Your subconscious monster will use whatever amount of unlimited power it takes to break through that door.<\/p>\n
Dr. Morbius \u2013 I\u2019m helpless to stop this terrible power.<\/p>\n
Altaira \u2013 John please do something.<\/p>\n
J J Adams \u2013 Alright I will.\u00a0 (draws his sidearm and fatally wounds Dr Morbius who falls to the ground)<\/p>\n
(The gages of the Krell machine quickly settle down to minimal levels and the door that was white hot cools visibly.)<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Morbius \u2013 Son, throw that switch.<\/p>\n J J Adams \u2013 What will it do?<\/p>\n Dr. Morbius \u2013 It will initiate a chain reaction inside the Krell thermonuclear power plants that will unstoppably consume the planet in a miniature nova.\u00a0 The Krell technology is too dangerous for humanity.\u00a0 It must be destroyed.<\/p>\n J J Adams \u2013 Sorry Dr Morbius, I disagree.\u00a0 The technology they possessed was too dangerous for them and for you.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll harvest the Krell knowledge without unleashing any subconscious monsters and I predict we\u2019ll do just fine.<\/p>\n (Morbius expires)<\/strong><\/p>\n Altaira \u2013 John, what do we do now?<\/p>\n J J Adams \u2013 Our first problem is how to get out of here.\u00a0 That door will be cool soon but it\u2019s probably permanently welded shut.\u00a0 I\u2019ll contact my crew and we\u2019ll provide a funeral ceremony for your father and Doc.\u00a0 Afterwards we\u2019ll get back in touch with Earth and begin the start of the project to decipher the Krell technology.\u00a0 That will be the largest step change in human knowledge since the discovery of the faster than light drive.\u00a0 It will take tens of thousands of scientists and engineers centuries to mine all of the knowledge here.<\/p>\n Altaira \u2013 But what will become of me?<\/p>\n J J Adams \u2013 That depends on what you want to do.\u00a0 If you want to stay on Altair IV, you will have many opportunities to press your legal right to some kind of remuneration for the government\u2019s seizure of the Krell technology.\u00a0 I\u2019d say you may end up as one of the wealthiest humans in the galaxy.<\/p>\n Altaira \u2013 But what about us?<\/p>\n J J Adams \u2013 Well Alta, a starship captain doesn\u2019t make enough of a salary to impress an heiress but if you can wait a year for a wedding I can most probably wangle a desk job on Altair IV and we can see whether your interest in biology is strictly academic or not.<\/p>\n Altaira \u2013 I\u2019ll wait for you John.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to leave my home.\u00a0 But with my father gone I need someone to help me figure out my future.<\/p>\n J J Adams \u2013 Well, as I said I\u2019ll be stuck here indefinitely while the military secures the Krell infrastructure.\u00a0 So, you\u2019ll get a chance to get to know me when I\u2019m not killing your relatives or fighting invisible monsters.<\/p>\n (They embrace, kiss and then begin the search for a way out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Morbius \u2013 Young man, my daughter is going to be terribly punished for what she just said. J J Adams \u2013 Dr Morbius, don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,239,1289,237,4,243],"tags":[290,291,168,265,2736],"class_list":["post-35460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movie-reviews","category-fiction-by-me","category-reviews","category-sff","category-sff-movie-reviews","tag-anne-francis","tag-forbidden-planet","tag-humor","tag-science-fiction","tag-walter-pidgeon"],"yoast_head":"\n