Don't believe in no-win scenarios

"I know that's what they call it. Don't you start." Leonard's pointing over the rim of the drink he's got in one hand. It's one thing to have an area warmed up, for people to manipulate fireworks, for Jim to be not quite as hurt as he might otherwise be from a nasty incident. But Leonard's never actually Seen Magic Happen yet so his skepticism is still firmly in place.

"Herbal medicine's not terribly uncommon in places where only the target species runs afoul of some kind of specialized disease or sickness." The urge is to mention Vulcan's traditional medicine but he has to check himself. That's a swiftly dying practice with the planet gone and its people scattered across the Federation. So alchemy isn't Entirely off the table though the fact that Felix's people Choose to use those kinds of terms still digs fitfully in the doctor's sense of decency. "It's the Other stuff I don't get. Haven't seen anything of. Jim calls him a 'conjurer' but hell, I ain't got a clue what that's supposed to mean."