Others may expect failure from you as it stands Captain, at least attempt a lasting impression.

[Condescension inflates his words, gently pushed along with a domineering gash of a smile.]

Kirk. I wish to know what the last known status of those torpedoes were before you arrived here. Their payload is not what your precious Starfleet would have you believe.

[There's a pause as he weighs his next words.]

Time has stopped for them, has it not?

[Implying they did not arrive here along with Jim or any of his crew.]