That's pretty much the only gripe I have with this game. I want to be free to wander the cosmos for all eternity without the threat of eventual annihilation by the Kor-Ah.
One of my favorite pieces of dialogue is when the station commander tells you that Earth's finest xenopsychologists have rated the Talking Pet as "Furtive/Hateful" on the personality scale.
If you don't have some alien device on your ship to protect you, after he tells you to get yourself killed, the screen goes black and comes back three weeks later and you have extensive damage to your ship or something.