" ... and Lieutenant Commander Harrison," nodded the woman with a hint of recognition. Continuing, "Captain Hartman. Good to put a face to a name. Ain't a chance you two saw where Sius' got to? He was in not a minute a go. Be a shame for him to miss you."
"I -" started Harrison, before he was cut off by Lewis. Reginald rambled on for a bit, being the old war stories sort of guy that he was worried he'd turn into. The other gentlemen went on and mentioned someone by the wrong rank; or more likely just a former rank.
Ending with a smirk, he said, “So what that means is you owe me, Hartman ... again.” Frank didn't know how to respond nor in what way the captain would, so he politely became very interested in his glass as he took a long, slow drink.
"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)
