...just as long as you indicate that capturing him took a degree of intelligence/planning/effort/cost/amazing luck. He's not the hapless, bumbling Mad Scientist type. The capture of the Professor, if it is to occur, should be almost as scary in its implications about the prior state of their abilities as it is in its flat statement about the suddent increase.
I, personally, would ask for at least one Boskonian who is good at figuring out (largely true) justifications for how providing them with Impressive Things helps advance the cause of SCIENCE!. Not necessarily things that are actively, directly, and significantly harmful to decent folks - the Prof's hat is only a light gray - but things that are useful to the Boskonians nonetheless in a variety of ways, and perhaps a few things that make it more difficult (though not necessarily directly dangerous) on the forces that come after them later.
Mind you, you could also have a few Boskos who go about things the Wrong way, and reap the inevitable Fail, but....
I, personally, would ask for at least one Boskonian who is good at figuring out (largely true) justifications for how providing them with Impressive Things helps advance the cause of SCIENCE!. Not necessarily things that are actively, directly, and significantly harmful to decent folks - the Prof's hat is only a light gray - but things that are useful to the Boskonians nonetheless in a variety of ways, and perhaps a few things that make it more difficult (though not necessarily directly dangerous) on the forces that come after them later.
Mind you, you could also have a few Boskos who go about things the Wrong way, and reap the inevitable Fail, but....