He shouldn't take it too seriously. Laura teases everyone, especially her friends: Carson, Rodney, Katie, the other girls from poker, the members of her gate team. Her smile's a little apologetic at the look on his face, but she never meant anything by it. Still doesn't.
She'd meant the joke to gently introduce the truth to him, that they've found themselves in some alternate reality where Star Trek is real. She'd forgotten how little of so much pop culture he knows, though she knew, once, about that and why it was, because he'd spent so much time working and studying and becoming her best he could be.
She'd loved that about him, once.
Now, she bites at her lower lip and sticks her hands into her pockets, lifting her shoulders a little.
"Uh. No, no, it's not."
She licks her lips.
"So you know that ... thing about how there are multiple realities out there and different versions of events have happened in each of them? We're ... kind of in the one where Star Trek is real."
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She'd meant the joke to gently introduce the truth to him, that they've found themselves in some alternate reality where Star Trek is real. She'd forgotten how little of so much pop culture he knows, though she knew, once, about that and why it was, because he'd spent so much time working and studying and becoming her best he could be.
She'd loved that about him, once.
Now, she bites at her lower lip and sticks her hands into her pockets, lifting her shoulders a little.
"Uh. No, no, it's not."
She licks her lips.
"So you know that ... thing about how there are multiple realities out there and different versions of events have happened in each of them? We're ... kind of in the one where Star Trek is real."