If my brain stopped, I'd be dead. [ No, it's got to be something else. He frowns, thinking about it. ] .. I dunno. Temporal anomalies are always in a class all their own, and they have no rules.

[ They have primitive equipment to try to monitor them, on the Enterprise, but it's not worth mentioning. Jim's handy, but things like that are beyond his ability to build and program - maybe even Scotty's, too, without a team to pitch-hit and work out the equations. (You know, like their entire senior staff.) ]

If that could just never happen again, I'd be cool.