This is...too easy, for all the unspoken tension wrapped around them in the air. It's tempting, for a moment, to try and ask about what becomes of them now, but that... Later. That's for later.

"Romantic? I suppose I could see that, with time and distance. I don't have the proper perspective to call it that, but I could see how someone could look at the 22nd century and think of it as a wild frontier, exploration and expansion and a lot of rapid changes. If you ever get the chance." If there's ever a chance Jack can leave. If there's a chance he can leave and he takes it. If there's a chance he can leave, takes it, and remembers to pop by. Right, stupid thing to say, but it sounded polite.