[Jim pauses to take a drink of his wine. Apparently he paid more attention in school then he thought he did because he knows about the Terror and the Seven Years' War that his new inmate is talking about. So that's great. He's dealing with someone from hundreds of years in the past. Because he and time travel have such a great track record.
He lets out a breath that sounds a lot like a sigh.]
"So I'm from your future. About five hundred years, I'd say. We've come a long way. We fly around in space now and fight aliens but that's not in the Federation's creed, so I'm not supposed to say that."
[Jim stops himself by waving his hand his hand around.]
"But anyway, this angry Romulan from the future decided that he wanted to turn all the Federation planets into black holes. We couldn't save one of them, even with a space dive onto a fifteen foot platform, which is harder then it sounds. I wasn't even supposed to be on the Enterprise, being accused of cheating grounds you so your best friend has to give you some terrible disease to sneak you on, but then I ended up the captain by pissing off a Vulcan, not easy to do, I might add, and Earth is safe and sound because of that."
[He smirks, looking entirely pleased with himself.]
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[Jim pauses to take a drink of his wine. Apparently he paid more attention in school then he thought he did because he knows about the Terror and the Seven Years' War that his new inmate is talking about. So that's great. He's dealing with someone from hundreds of years in the past. Because he and time travel have such a great track record.
He lets out a breath that sounds a lot like a sigh.]
"So I'm from your future. About five hundred years, I'd say. We've come a long way. We fly around in space now and fight aliens but that's not in the Federation's creed, so I'm not supposed to say that."
[Jim stops himself by waving his hand his hand around.]
"But anyway, this angry Romulan from the future decided that he wanted to turn all the Federation planets into black holes. We couldn't save one of them, even with a space dive onto a fifteen foot platform, which is harder then it sounds. I wasn't even supposed to be on the Enterprise, being accused of cheating grounds you so your best friend has to give you some terrible disease to sneak you on, but then I ended up the captain by pissing off a Vulcan, not easy to do, I might add, and Earth is safe and sound because of that."
[He smirks, looking entirely pleased with himself.]
"Now tell me the second half."