She thinks about people that she has known who are on the stoic side. Her sleeper agent friend comes to mind immediately but she hastily pushes him out of her thoughts. No need to go back down that conversational path. "That's usually how it goes. Do you have other aliens in the Federation? Or just Vulcans?"

"You're telling me," she says with a sheepish laugh. "But like you said, you know your first officer very well. It should help you identify him from the other ones."

"Twelve," she answers automatically. Her expression brightens. "There's a thirteenth colony called Earth that for the longest time we thought was only a myth. But we have proof now that it exists, and we're headed there."