"Yeah, I think it is. He says he doesn't want to tell us anything that'd change our destinies or something like that, so he won't talk about old missions and stuff. But he doesn't mind just talking, and I don't blame him. He's really old, older than humans usually get. He lost his versions of us a long time ago." Ambassador Spock hadn't needed to tell Jim how deep the pain of that loss runs. He'd felt it, as strongly as Spock himself, the moment the old Vulcan's mind touched his.

Jim listens with interest to Hunter's mention of his friends. "That's gotta be really weird. The Department of Temporal Investigations would have absolute kittens over something like that."