Just before their drinks were served, Reginald asked him, "I've seen your ship before. Had a different Commander at that time...New posting, I'm guessing?"
"Like I said, I'm just the executive officer Des Moines. That Defiant still belongs to Teerin," replied Harrison, taking a drink from his glass as it's handed to him.
That Captain suddenly raised her voice to bone-chilling levels ... it was familiar somehow, but the Lieutenant Commander didn't recognize her face. Their prior conversation aside for the moment, his new acquaintance commented, "Looks like the Captain's anger broke." As he turned his head to get a closer look, Frank could see the mental click as Lewis' grin faded to grimace.
But just as quickly his face brightened and he called out, "Captain!" then beckoned for her to come over. Turning back, he said, "That's your boss, Harrison ... at least, if I recall correctly. Any idea what she's mad about?"
Frank thought for a second about what he had just heard, then responded with a hint of confusion, "The Corps haven't had a formal head since the retirement of Hartm- ... oh, that's her? I had only spoken to her a few brief times via radio before. Don't know what's made her so mad, either."
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
