[ Ah. Well, that doesn't complicate things at all, nope. ]

I'm from a little after that. After we made it back to Yorktown. [ He's not really sure that sharing the whole story is a good idea, but also he knows there's no way he can realistically keep it to himself for very long. So he continues, albeit with the smile gone. ] We didn't make it back with our ship, though. The Enterprise was totaled when we crashed into the planet, we had to leave her behind.

On the upside, we managed to stop the people who were trying to get their hands on the doodad.