[ hey now, you're not the only captain in starfleet history who enjoys a good challenge every now and then — or the only one who doesn't enjoy no-win scenarios, for that matter. she hates those, and is all about finding that unseen loophole in the supposedly impossible to beat clause. ]

That's far better than I could have done, [ she comments, skipping over the attention he brought to the length of time she's been out of contact with starfleet. not that he knows she's been out of contact. for all the man knows, starfleet is manning missions out into the deep, far regions of space like they were with the gamma quadrant and the bajoran wormhole. ] I can rig Voyager to fly with both nacelles offline and environmental controls sitting at thirty percent, but I can't work a toaster to save my life.