[Technology exposition is so hard. Where's Chekov, he could explain all this!!]
It's way more advanced than phones or radios, but-- same basic principle, yeah. We've got communications officers that specialize in hailing other ships or planets, too. The scale is hard to imagine if you aren't used to space travel.
[It's like saying 'picture the size of Sirius as comparative to Sol' and expecting someone to know what you're talking about without giving them the tools to understand the comparison. Jim shakes his head and falls silent, then, as she talks about her world, and then - lightbulb! jerky, right - he takes a piece out of the bag and then tosses it back with it between his teeth.]
And then they just kept you locked up? That's kind of...
[HE MAKES A FACE and gestures vainly with one hand. How to edit language around a teenaged girl??]
action;
It's way more advanced than phones or radios, but-- same basic principle, yeah. We've got communications officers that specialize in hailing other ships or planets, too. The scale is hard to imagine if you aren't used to space travel.
[It's like saying 'picture the size of Sirius as comparative to Sol' and expecting someone to know what you're talking about without giving them the tools to understand the comparison. Jim shakes his head and falls silent, then, as she talks about her world, and then - lightbulb! jerky, right - he takes a piece out of the bag and then tosses it back with it between his teeth.]
And then they just kept you locked up? That's kind of...
[HE MAKES A FACE and gestures vainly with one hand. How to edit language around a teenaged girl??]
Not cool. And this is pretty good.
[A wave of the jerky.]