Note: On the subject of footnotes, this one is a bit more authoritative than the one referenced in the strip above. Authoritative, and almost certainly reliable, since you can totally trust footnotes.
BALA-AMIN: We've explored vast swaths of the galaxy. The only thing capable of making mass extinctions happen on the scale of Fermi's Paradox is intelligent life.
And the problem, the real problem, may be that the only solution is a military one.
BALA-AMIN: Captain Landon?
LANDON: Still parsing.
BALA-AMIN: Take your time. I bet you've got millions of years before we all kill each other.