Picard pointedly ignored the others' bickering for the moment, actually enjoying the conversation with Cybil. "No time is the wrong time to be born, Miss Bennett. But who knows? Your destiny may lie in another universe entirely. It's happened before.

"I sometimes wonder what it would have been like to be a naval officer, perhaps even aboard the HMS Enterprise. No warp drives, no astrometric charts. Just the wind at your back and the stars in the sky to guide you."