[ Jim has been in too many ancient starships and crumbling bases to overlook even the most minor instance of damage; complicated machines like this are like living bodies. If one thing goes wrong, it can have a ripple effect, or become a problem down the line when you least expect it. They're lucky to have this facility, and life in this dimension would be much more inconvenient without it. ]
Jim Kirk, Starfleet officer and captain of the USS Enterprise, [ he says, as though impervious to the attitude. Only a little bit like a parent tolerating a child shoving their homework off the table. He's in charge of a lot of people at home. ]
I don't take anything for granted. [ Of fixing the 'ship'. He knows what it's like to have nothing, after all. ]
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Jim Kirk, Starfleet officer and captain of the USS Enterprise, [ he says, as though impervious to the attitude. Only a little bit like a parent tolerating a child shoving their homework off the table. He's in charge of a lot of people at home. ]
I don't take anything for granted. [ Of fixing the 'ship'. He knows what it's like to have nothing, after all. ]