"I'm surprised to hear that. Almost as surprised as showing up on an unfamiliar ship." While that was going to lead into a wry comment about how seldomly Nietzscheans were surprised he didn't want to consider the worst surprises that Dylan had been through.

What had happened to Dylan.

But he supposed Dylan would discuss it in his own time, once the pertinent information were dealt with. "I saw an alien on the bridge, unfamiliar to me. Are there different races here? No magog?"

Please, please let there be none of those deplorable creatures in this universe. One place, one alternate reality, should be spared the horrors of what they did.