For a system that should only operate on perfect judgment, it is quite flawed. [The whole situation was more complicated than he anticipated. It would take tremendous work to get free, and nothing made any plans more difficult than dealing with a volatile and unpredictable opposing force.
It was hard to believe how different this conversation might be, if Cornelia had been from any time farther into the past than she currently was.] This is all almost too hard to believe. [He might just reconsider the words of Q later on today, after this talk...]