'No Commonwealth.' That's all she says, but he knows her well enough to know the unexpressed emotions behind the way she looks at him, behind the blink as she processes what he's said. They were the last of the Commonwealth and here they are, stranded in time again, impossibly far from everything they've ever known.

So far, this time, that even his dream of reviving it, pulling it back out of the ashes and giving it substance, is beyond his reach.

He crosses his arms and shakes his head, once.

"No." He flashes a smile her way, fond and proud. "Nothing like you, anyway. It has a computer, but it's more like the Maru's."