Interdimension time travel talk

No, there isn't going to be any physics or any scientific talk here. What I know of science is from comic books and films.

But really, I've been thinking, if I had a choice between who I'd travel with, which would I pick? The doctor with his TARDIS and his sonic screwdriver and his need to help everyone and be involved in politics and altering time and history, or Ford Prefect and his thumb and his towel and his need to see the world and have fun and get lost in the past and drink dangerous alien alcoholic drinks?

I asked my dad this question and we both actually had to think. Either is just as dangerous as the other, the Doctor has enemies after him(the Master, the Daleks, etc) and there's no garauntee that you, as companion, would survive traveling with the Doctor (Rose-lost in another dimension, Donna-forgot everything about the Doctor and if she ever remembers her brain will burn out, Sarah Jane-waited forever for him to come home. Martha's the only one who walked away and got a normal life, but she'll never recover from the Doctor). And Ford Prefect, he makes enemies and friends everywhere he goes, he has no concept of self-preservation, much less looking out for his companions, he left Arthur Dent alone in the universe to figure out what to do. The Doctor at least worries and protects his companions, Ford Prefect just goes off on his own.

And then Dad pointed out that the Doctor controls time, or can manipulate it, so you could travel with him for years and centuries and decades and millineum and then he'd drop you right back at the second you left, and no one would be the wiser. Ford Prefect would take you to the end of the Galaxy, the end of Time itself and then say, 'well, how do we get back home?' and it'd be another adventure to get back, but no gaurantee that you'd make it to the world you knew.

(although technically, the world you knew was already destroyed, hence the whole getting onboard with Ford thing.)

I don't know. Ford seems to be more a partyer, going from planet to the next and just doing his own thing. The Doctor's just traveling because he has no where to go, so..

I suppose, in the end, I'd pick to go with the Doctor, even if it meant I got a bad ending.

Ford Prefect, his philosophy is amazing and inspiring, but he's freakin' nuts, I'm not trusting my life with a dude who got Arthur Dent lost in prehistoric Earth-2.