"Yeah I did. The way I see it, the future doesn't matter if you don't care about the present first. What matters is the effect you have on other people and how you live your life, because once you're dead you won't know any different." Jim takes a bite of his omelet, and murmurs, "This is good," before he continues, this particular train of thought too strong to derail with his feelings on food.

"I had a lot of regrets while I was dying, but the friends I'd made weren't among them, and part of me was mad that I was gonna be remembered like my dad was, like some kind of larger-than-life fake persona instead of the fucked up person I am. I wasn't thinking about that until after I fixed the warp core and the only thing that mattered to me was making sure everyone else wouldn't die. I wasn't scared until I after knew I'd done that."