[ That's a milktoast story, even. Jim huffs a laugh. ] Space is just weird. I'm not sure I'd have ever been able to have a different career, honestly.

[ Besides prison. ]

We were months out from the nearest starbase, to say nothing of Earth, so we just had this dog on board for a while. I had a lieutenant whose only job for weeks was to track down a living relative of the by-then-deceased Admiral Archer to pawn the thing off onto, and eventually, it vanished again, out into someone's custody.

Felt like it made sense for a horse that sort of came from nowhere.