As if it would be worse off without you? You flatter yourself.

[She finally comes back on-screen, but she's tending to something against the wall of the console room that looks suspiciously like a Venus fly trap.]

Perhaps that's what you do in your spare time, but perhaps you've forgotten that chemistry is much more than finding the precise combination of materials to achieve a desired result. Or would you prefer I demonstrate a newer experiment I've been working on? I'm sure you'd make a wonderful lab rat.