It's an olive branch that seems to be working - for all of his snarling and pacing and aggression earlier, Khan makes for a startlingly well-behaved patient now. He spares only a cursory glance at the osteogenic stimulator before his attention refocuses on the Sickbay as a whole - who's coming, who's going, and more importantly, where all of the exits are located.

"How are you with history?" he asks, gaze still scanning their surroundings. It's not quite as off-handed a question as it sounds - he wants to know what he's missed. How far has the Federation's reach spread, these past hundred years?