Aren't you just thrilled at having the opportunity of a lifetime?

[They like to bill it as a choice, but when the choice is between 'work on the ship or get stuck on some weird alien planet and either learn to live there or hope they have technology that could get you back,' it's a no-brainer which one most people are going to go with.

Still, in a lot of cases it's better than the alternative. Liquid knows that one for sure.]

At this point it's been... about five months, I think. [He pauses.] It really has been that long.

[Five months alive again, with his own body, and he's only really lost part of an arm. He's still at a pretty big gain from how things were.]

But yeah, long enough for that. I'm never calling any captain incompetent again.

[The previous captains were incompetent, sure, but he should have expected wanting competence meant the new management'd be too competent. Or, well, at the very least, their leadership styles do not mesh at all.]