It's a slightly sobering thought. Most of the media's focus on Jim and the Enterprise has been linked to tragedy, first with the destruction of Vulcan, and now with the battle of Luna that ended with a starship crashed in the middle of San Francisco.

Jim's not terribly proud of these events. While he doesn't regret the Enterprise's role in ending those conflicts, the loss of life involved is too much to see it as something to glorify. And besides... Starfleet is supposed to be explorers, not soldiers.

"Honestly? I hope whatever we discover out there in the black is what we're remembered for," he answers thoughtfully. "Whether it's knowledge, or useful technology, or just solving some of the mysteries of the universe."