Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25480732-20141010234917/@comment-24986099-20141011134355

Jay T. Dawgzone wrote: She should've tried to repair the warp pads instead. I don't think that would be a good idea, since Pearl never wanted to go to another planet.

Pearl Said: And maybe just for a second, from a distance, I could see what's been going on without me.

As you can see in the episode, the galaxy warp pads were physically broken from Earth's side for over thousands of years. If Pearl could fix them they wouldn't still be broken.