In scene 4 it was revealed that Captain Lion is actually a human, Lieutenant Mink is really a walrus, and Lieutenant Aardvark is actually a Plutonion. Professor Gorilla, Ensign Bear, Ensign Walrus, and Lieutenant Aardvark had been about to gear up for their departure to Planet 9 via a shuttle, although now there were growing conflicts.
Smith: What do you mean you are a Plutonian? You came aboard this vessel with the rest of us back on Europa.
With that said, Aardvark placed his hands on his snout and twisted it clockwise. With a click, followed by a spray of escaping gas, he removed his entire headpiece, revealing what looked like a penguin within an aardvark exterior.
Bear: Woot naw iz des? Oddfark iz bord?
Smith: He looks like a penguin.
Plutonian: Chee chee chep chep chutta chutta --
Gorilla: What are you saying? You are totally incomprehendable.
The Plutonian removed the tongue from the aardvark helmet and placed it back on his head.
Mink: I'll take that -- if you don't need it.
Plutonian: Certainly, my dear.
Gorilla: We can understand you now. How did you get aboard and replace Lieutenant Aardvark?
Plutonian: I replaced him on the surface, just recently.
Bear: Iz no twrue. Oddfark woz wit meh ot aw tems.
Plutonian: Actually, I replaced him almost immediately upon your landing. The time shift made it possible for my doing this over the stay of your reconnisence while only a few seconds registered in your mind.
Gorilla: Time shift?
Plutonian: Yes. Now that you are in the gravitational pull of the planet, you will be subject to the time-slip phenomenon. Almost immediately -- (skizzle)...
With a quick flash the crew and ship are swept ahead in time.
Plutonian: ... and this has been true for a million years.
Gorilla: Will this affect our landing again?
Plutonian: There will be no shuttle -- (skizzle) -- and your DNA will be altered.
Gorilla: So, as we enter this -- (skizzle) ---
Plutonian: -- human DNA components will be stripped out -- (skizzle) --prepare to leap to the surface.
Bear: Eh woll bay gooink ass woll.
Plutonian: Your entire crew will have to go, though many --- (skizzle)
On the surface, the crew reverted to their DNA types minus any human attributes. Their ship burned up in the outer atmoshere, and all memory of their previous lives fell away with the new reality of which they were now a part.
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