"The real thing," Jim said, to the waiter. "There's something here called synthehol," he explained to Tucker. "You don't want to know. But my point, about warp theory is... I have no doubt you know everything you could possibly know. But your ship traveled, if I recall correctly... warp 5? In 2268 we're on the point of a standard travel speed of warp 8. Coming here? I'm told it's advanced far enough they've actually re-scaled the whole thing, so our warp 5 isn't theirs at all. And that everything I know is obsolete."

He shook his head. "My point being, Commander, that while this future-Starfleet might be more advanced, they're going to need the help of the cavalry to get us back where we belong."