[ well he's also no fun in various classical senses of the term.... ]
Precisely. [ Smiling now. That's more what he was getting at, but Chekov's enthusiasm about it is... invigorating, somehow. ] And I'll admit there's no small part of me wondering about the voracity of the reports we have of the Sector Six animals. Were they categorized by paleontologists, for example, based on a captured and dissected specimen? Or did someone see a large, vaguely lizard-like creature and assume?
[ Beat, then, teasing, ] To say nothing about the technicalities within the genus generally classed as 'dinosaur' by the public.