"Scheduled delivery. Non-emergency and we were ahead of schedule anyway." Quoting stardates at them won't mean anything so he doesn't bother. Spock had assured him it wouldn't take long. And if they didn't find anything before they needed to head out? Oh well. There's the entire rest of the galaxy to poke around in.

"Not due for another several weeks, but our last mission ended up taking a lot less time than we'd planned." Not because Jim hadn't been there to summon trouble. "The initial readings from the planet had been incorrect, and there just wasn't a lot to see or do. A few geological readings, and away we went."

"Not every morning." Jim smiles though. He loves it. "While we're in warp there really isn't much to see."