I applaud the ingenuity of your plan, however it is a finite resource and we are still uncertain just how many of these creatures currently are inhabiting the ship, nor if they have a way to reproduce.

[BB is mostly being a downer because these things are eating the thing he needs intact at all cost. Even to the point of remaining a disembodied voice on the MID speakers then risk an avatar in case one of the scraplets eat the mechanism used to make said hologram.]