Jim smiles back at him, and pulls out his PINpoint-enhanced communicator. "Hang on a sec, I'll beam it over. I would've gotten it to you sooner, but my life got... unexpectedly busy." He'd actually forgotten about it, until today.

He only has to fiddle around with the device for a minute or two before a swirl of white light deposits three stacked books on a nearby table. There's a college-level introductory chemistry textbook, a book on Earth's history of space travel up 'til the twenty-third century, and a xenobiology book with basic information on the major species in the Federation.

"Hope you don't mind, I picked out a few more I thought might interest you."