"Could be a worse time period, I guess," Bones said. "At least they've managed to all but eliminate the more deadly diseases." And they didn't have contact with the alien ones yet.
When the waitress came, Bones ordered pancakes, as they seemed like one of the less greasy things on the menu. Once she walked away, he continued: "Seriously though, how are you not worried about the Enterprise? I know we were going to be grounded in Yorktown for a while, but this wasn't exactly how I planned to spend my time off. And what are we going to do about Sulu?"
There wasn't really much to do about him, Bones knew. He just found it incredibly odd that their pilot had apparently been somewhere else before he'd come here and apparently knew a whole lot of people here because of it.