Jim gives an affirmative nod to her question regarding mind melds. "Actually, it's not as impossible as you might think. Command's still hammering out all the regulations, but a lab on Starbase Eleven recently invented a new anti-corrosive polymer that isn't toxic to Horta and sticks pretty great to their undersides, so we might be able to let them serve in Starfleet soon."

The word 'Earthling' is such an archaic term to him that he has to politely stifle a laugh. "I gotta admit, I'm curious... are your Sacred Scrolls actually scrolls, or is that just a symbolic kinda name?"