Aahh, you’re totally right. I should have combined the first two panels and just ended it at the third.

♫ Bird of Prey cruises of red and green,

Decloaking over your head,

Look for the ship, set phasers to stun,

And she’s warped. ♫

I still cannot believe NASA managed to re-establish a connection with Voyager 1.

That scene from The Martian where JPL had a hardware copy of Pathfinder on Earth? That’s not apocryphal. NASA keeps a lot of engineering models around for a variety of purposes including this sort of hardware troubleshooting.

It’s a practice they started after Voyager. They shot that patch off into space based off of old documentation, blueprints, and internal memos.

Someone made this into a comic! https://mythjae.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/fated-3/