Pike couldn't help the wince at Kirk's comment about having time, because that seemed his lot in life when he met new crews. His ship needed repair and of course ship was the one out of commission for weeks while he was on some other one carrying on like business as usual. "No, I expect she won't be going out anytime soon. Hopefully it's not nearly as bad as what happened before I was transferred to Discovery." Where the Enterprise was just now starting to get her legs under her.

Which really was just a prompt to finish off his own drink and then reach over to pour himself a new one as well while Kirk continued talking. The consequent draining of his freshly poured glass to only half full was probably the biggest indicator of just how bad things were back home for him.

"Our universe jumping was completely unintentional. So unless Control and the Red Angel magically appear here," and weirder things had happened in his life so nothing would surprise him, "your mission should stay a standard inspect and retrieve." He tiled his head back and once again emptied his glass, but this time he didn't pour himself another. "At least for the moment." Until his crew inevitably probably started something or other.