"Then I would be joinin' up with the Navy when you were born. Pretty sure that makes you a kid." He smiles though, lopsided, and points his fork at Raleigh. "Congrats on savin' Earth, but you ain't the only one in that business, son."

"Romantic don't just mean of the romance kind. I mean the whole - it's like a storybook, right? It's romantic. But you and Mako sure ain't related, I'm just gonna say that." He stabbed a piece of food with his fork.

"An AI, of a kind. She ain't like what you'd read in Sci-Fi. She's a ship, and she'd a damn fast one, and a damn good one, but that don't mean she's gonna have a conversation with you about your kids." A pause, a wistful sigh. "Even if she sure does feel like she could, sometimes."