[ To be fair, it's unlike anything most people have known, even in the universe Jim's from. The Klingon and Romulan Empires, the worlds beyond, the Dark Market - they all operate with money, they all operate with fascism, or capitalism, or vicious tribalism. (He thinks of Eurydice giving him shit over being on a ship called Enterprise but not dealing in money. Dutch reminds him of Eurydice, a little bit.) ]

The only place to go from the end is to start again, [ he says, though his tone of voice isn't exactly optimistic. More like-- stubborn, determined. Because Jim isn't a blind optimist, he's just the most bullheaded incidental genius there ever was. ]

You're much more put together than any post-atomic horror blight I've heard of, though.

[ :) ??? ]