"It was no trouble, I assure you," he says. "Standard guest quarters are only slightly more modest. One of many differences between ships of your era and mine, I'm sure."
Since Captain Archer remains standing, Picard takes the opportunity to move through the room and observe some of those differences. He oftentimes wonders what it would have been like to be at the precipice of Starfleet's very beginnings, to see it grow to what it is now.
"I have had my fair share of cramped quarters as well," he adds, a touch wry. "Sometimes I find myself missing the room I had as an ensign. It was little more than a box that I shared with a fellow graduate, but it was my first real home after I left the academy. It's the memories we keep; the objects, well. They fade with time."
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"It was no trouble, I assure you," he says. "Standard guest quarters are only slightly more modest. One of many differences between ships of your era and mine, I'm sure."
Since Captain Archer remains standing, Picard takes the opportunity to move through the room and observe some of those differences. He oftentimes wonders what it would have been like to be at the precipice of Starfleet's very beginnings, to see it grow to what it is now.
"I have had my fair share of cramped quarters as well," he adds, a touch wry. "Sometimes I find myself missing the room I had as an ensign. It was little more than a box that I shared with a fellow graduate, but it was my first real home after I left the academy. It's the memories we keep; the objects, well. They fade with time."