He raised his eyebrows when she mentioned that she couldn't assume they were people - something about the phrasing of that sent cogs turning in his mind. "Point taken," he said thoughtfully. It was possible - likely, even - that the reason that he couldn't figure this place out was because it was somewhere the Federation had never been. That was the Enterprise's primary mission, wasn't it? To seek out new worlds? So maybe he wasn't as far off the grid as it felt, and he really just had to wait until his crew figured out what was going on. Shouldn't take more than a day or two.
The time disruptance though, his mind reminded him, was a huge red warning sign that he probably shouldn't ignore in his fantasy for very long.
"Good point, with the recruitment," he said, looking around. He could believe that someone would want him for some kind of crew - he was awesome. "For what, though. If you don't mind me asking, what would you say are your strengths? Good leadership, moral support, anything that would be useful in war?"
He paused. "Though I guess that's getting ahead of myself. If it is recruitment, there's nothing saying that it's for some kind of war. But yeah," he said with a nod of his head. "Either way, it's some f... raked up experiment."
He listened as she asked about cameras, and windows, and was about to chime in with a new explanation when she seemed to figure it out on her own. He half snorted once, in a kind of awe, and shook his head.
"Simpleness nothing. You've got more on me," he said. "If they tried to catapult me 400 years in the future, I'd be doing a whole lot more yelling and screaming, and a whole lot less figuring sh... tuff out." He wasn't sure if that was true or not - he'd probably figure something out - but he certainly didn't want her feeling badly that she didn't know what a camera was if it hadn't been invented in her time. Pffft.
He listened to her comments about speaking to the omnipresent beings, and tried not to laugh about how that was probably stroking the ego of some scientist in a lab somewhere, being compared to God, and nodded his head. "It's likely that they can hear everything we're saying, yeah. Whether or not we'll get a response is the question." He smirked a bit. "Should we try? I'm not going to embarrass you if I start shouting at the sky, am I?"
He wasn't sure if he really wanted to start shouting at the sky, but he was seriously considering it now that he'd said he would.