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It is Lucien's first time in space and he's nervous. This is not really the best sign considering that the reason he's going to space is to join Starfleet but presumable his nerves will settle and it will be fine. It's only a six-hour trip anyways. His nerves not particularly settled he sits down for the acceleration to warp, which is completely pointless given the inertial dampeners but it makes him feel better.
Despite all his worrying takeoff goes smoothly-
Sooooo pretty.
"I can look over it and tell you which chapters are important for warp theory?"
He's still really sorry.
Okay, what's in this table of contents...
"Oh this spends way more time on limits and the single variable integration chapter looks mostly useless past the first part - and wait is that how they're teaching derivatives that's... needlessly confusing. Especially when you need multidimensional derivatives which I guess this book doesn't cover at all. I don't actually know Chapter 4 or anything past chapter 12 except for 14, and you won't need to either. Really I can probably explain the warp equations without 14, you just won't be able to derive the constants on your own but I'll just tell you them."
"... it's also occuring to me to ask if your society has made nukes yet. Or genetically augmented super soldiers."
"Okay, I don't actually know as much about how the technology for genetically augmenting super soldiers works - you won't need a background in anything to understand what I know - but I am going to need to explain it to you I think."
"...unless you plan on explaining it to your military or something similar, in which I case I want time to figure out whether doing so will start a World War that will put you at serious risk of being killed."
"Okay.... I hate that I am apparently running my desire to avoid risking billions of lives through the risk that it might hurt you in particular. At least if the alternative is making you particularly unhappy, my values seem to be unchanged without you involved."
"It does, a bit. Though I don't think the people who used it recklessly on my world wanted to."
"I don't actually know that much about how the technology works but if you're comfortable agreeing not to share this particular thing without my permission I'd be more comfortable sharing what I do know?"
"...I kind of don't now have much reason to think that you are actually an alien so I'd be making that promise under presumptions we do not share."
"Oh, do you want to test out the universal translator for yourself? Assuming that would do it."
"Uh, I'd give you this badge and then everything would sound like it's in in your native language. It can also record and playback audio and translate written text, though that last part isn't always as reliable. I could also turn it off and you could hear me speaking in my native language."
"I don't know how to get someone to talk to me in another language on short notice in a way that wouldn't contaminate the experiment. There are books in other languages in this library, but that's the part that's unreliable."
"You could try it with the books? Or uh, if you know any of the languages and could talk aloud in it for a bit my guess is it will work fine for that language afterwards."
"In the land of Ealun the clover grew thick enough to support the stride of a grown man without leaving his footprint in the soil; and the rain floated rather than fall, misty dew-kisses upon the greenery; and the bees made honey sweeter and more golden than those in other countries; and yet Prince Caillun was unhappy."
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