"Hey," Jim says, laughing, hands up in playful self-defense. "Ask him his full name if you ever meet him, it's not my fault." His chief engineer is from Scotland, named Montgomery Scott, and he goes by Scotty. He knows, okay. And, yeah, Nadril is a leg up on the desolate Starfleet outpost on Delta Vega. So there's that.

"Uuhhh..."

If that sounds like stalling because it was absolutely a punishment for the both of them, spoilers, it is. So-- "Long story in either direction, though wildly different ones." Ehhem. "My visit was, fortunately, short. At the base, anyway, I spent a whole day running through frozen terrain chased by gigantic ice bug aliens and then hiding in a cave with-- an old friend, who happened to be there."

In the cave ??

"In the cave."