"As I so recently reminded someone, at least I still have hair, so count your blessings." He tipped his glass at Kirk as he said that, watching the younger man touch his hair and settle on the couch.
At least for the moment he could ignore the fact that he was from a different universe and pretend he was just getting to know the next up and coming captain of Starfleet. Nothing he hadn't done before he had left on his five year mission, in fact he had often ended up the mentor of a number of rising stars around the fleet and he was perfectly fine with that. So, if he approached Kirk and Spock and this universe like that, but of course knowing he lacked in critical information, he might actually make it out of all of this okay, at least until he made it back home somehow.
Somehow of course being the operative word, because that all hinged on something about the spore drive and mycelleium and things Stamets had babbled at him rather quickly before they had all been dragged to their respective debriefings. Mushroom travel, the galaxies most complicated piece of engineering.
As the music hit his ears though, he shook his head some at the classic. Not really his usual but he also wasn't one to be overly picky, and so he couldn't scowl at Kirk for his choice. The sigh though, that was perhaps a little over dramatic, at least in regards to Kirk's question.
"I've known most of my senior staff on the Enterprise, my version of her at least, for a number of years, and at one point I made the mistake of getting drunk while on an away mission during our five year mission." So it wasn't too long ago really, in the grand scheme of things for him. "To be fair, it was during a diplomatic dinner with a new planet. Apparently it was bad enough for me to cut out early and leave Number One on her own to finish the discussions and she changed my alarm to Kacellian opera as payback for my, abandoning her to the company of Dr. Boyce."
To which Phil had been horribly insulted and Pike had nursed a hangover the entire day after being so rudely awakened because of the somehow perceived insult of leaving the two of them alone (Pike called bullshit on the entire thing and honestly just thought she did it because it meant he had managed to get out of the diplomatic talks early and she hadn't exactly been thrilled with the planets people).
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At least for the moment he could ignore the fact that he was from a different universe and pretend he was just getting to know the next up and coming captain of Starfleet. Nothing he hadn't done before he had left on his five year mission, in fact he had often ended up the mentor of a number of rising stars around the fleet and he was perfectly fine with that. So, if he approached Kirk and Spock and this universe like that, but of course knowing he lacked in critical information, he might actually make it out of all of this okay, at least until he made it back home somehow.
Somehow of course being the operative word, because that all hinged on something about the spore drive and mycelleium and things Stamets had babbled at him rather quickly before they had all been dragged to their respective debriefings. Mushroom travel, the galaxies most complicated piece of engineering.
As the music hit his ears though, he shook his head some at the classic. Not really his usual but he also wasn't one to be overly picky, and so he couldn't scowl at Kirk for his choice. The sigh though, that was perhaps a little over dramatic, at least in regards to Kirk's question.
"I've known most of my senior staff on the Enterprise, my version of her at least, for a number of years, and at one point I made the mistake of getting drunk while on an away mission during our five year mission." So it wasn't too long ago really, in the grand scheme of things for him. "To be fair, it was during a diplomatic dinner with a new planet. Apparently it was bad enough for me to cut out early and leave Number One on her own to finish the discussions and she changed my alarm to Kacellian opera as payback for my, abandoning her to the company of Dr. Boyce."
To which Phil had been horribly insulted and Pike had nursed a hangover the entire day after being so rudely awakened because of the somehow perceived insult of leaving the two of them alone (Pike called bullshit on the entire thing and honestly just thought she did it because it meant he had managed to get out of the diplomatic talks early and she hadn't exactly been thrilled with the planets people).