He'd been correct in the identification of the ship then. However, it would appear that he had moved forward in time, but whether or not this was the unchanged timeline that he had originally hailed from or the altered one he had been part of during the last year, that yet remained to be determined.

There was one easy method he could use to learn this, he would ask one more rather specific question and await its answer, though no doubt the other's reaction to the question would tell him nearly as much as the answer to it.

"Thank you. I have one more question for you, Lt. Commander. Does the planet Vulcan still exist?"