Even though those words hurt (and hurt strangely deeply for a man she has just met, even though she had known of him since she had laid her eyes on a volume about the Eugenic Wars at the age of sixteen), Marla simply raises an eyebrow.

"Indeed. Historian of the USS Enterprise." she says, visibly amused "And I'm sorely tempted to consider that disappointment of yours a compliment, Khan Noonien Singh."