Protecting the Apex Predators cub

You're a maintenance worker on the starship Corlient, your task is to make sure the halls, labs, and crew quarters are kept clean at all times. One day, however you come across a lab with a young Huntrixar laying asleep in a holding field. while trying to back out of the lab, you accidentally release the young beast and it immediately imprints on you, now you must either help the scientists of your crew study the creature or help it return to the world it was stolen from. What will you choose?