Sometimes Jim wonders if there's some kind of karmic being following the Enterprise around and giving them the oddest missions. Or maybe (she thinks with a moment of fierce pride), maybe her crew is just so damn good that, if there's any higher power playing with the universe, he or she or it just knows they can handle it.

Still, the day didn't end too badly and she had time off to stay on the planet for shore leave and do whatever she wanted with her time, because the Captain gets priority. (Especially after Bones appeared to die, and she doesn't want to think about that.) So far, in her walking, she's come across several old flames and several hypothetical new flames.

And... the drunkard with the teddy bar from the Plane. That stops her in her tracks, because she's pretty certain she wasn't thinking about him. "Hello?"