"It's just a milk run," Jim assures him, and it's nice that they don't have to change the subject when the waitstaff returns with their main courses, placing the dishes in front of them. Jim nods in thanks to zher, before continuing. "We load up with our full crew complement and head out for a week-long trip where we do nothing but make sure the Enterprise is behaving how she's supposed to under normal working conditions. Engineering tests can only do so much at a time, so we stick around within a stone's throw of the Sol system and run her through her paces. That way if any problems do come up, we're still in reach of help, and we can fix her up before we head out for real."