A friendship founded on books certainly isn't a bad kind of friendship to have, and Jim nods in agreement. They're already off to such a good start.

"It's not as bad as I thought it would be," he admits. There'd certainly been a significant amount of self-doubt, before he'd started. "I did have to devote a class to 'ask Captain Kirk tons of questions' to get that all out of the way, but everyone seems pretty engaged and eager to learn. I don't know if it's because of who I am or because of the subject matter, but if it means they're learning, I guess it doesn't matter."