Jim laughed. "I met him, once," he says. "Cochrane, I mean. I guess I'm violating some law or other by mentioning it. Anyway, I'm not saying taking classes is the answer. I am saying that, Commander, you're going to get bored on this boat. I'm going to keep looking for a way off, but already I've come to realize it's important to stay busy, as well."

There's something refreshing about Tucker. Something... not backwards, exactly, but old-fashioned, but in the way someone not being too polite is. It's passion, Jim realizes. And cockiness. And the complete lack of comprehension that he's been flung into a technological era he hasn't imagined yet.

In that sense, Jim thinks, they're more than a bit alike.