[ stasis is long past, where he's from - with the introduction of warp, it's just not needed anymore. it just make the concept more foreign to him, though he knows that it's a thing. it's still weird. he'll be glad if he never deals with that again, honestly, and is glad he woke up when he did rather than years down the line. ]

It's just not used anymore, where I'm from. Bit of a blast from the past on my end. [ still wry. it's true enough, anyway. but her sudden interest in the fact he's found his captain distracts him from being too worried about the fact that her stomach's growled (boy does he understand that one) and he nods once more, looking over his shoulder like jim's going to pop up behind him. on a normal day, he might. ]

That'd be it, yeah. [ well, she's been here too, it's not like they couldn't have met-- ] James T. Kirk. A man I'd follow to the ends of the universe, mind, though that seems to be coming true of its own accord.