Now that he's got his second martini, Jim finishes off the first one. He's steadily working on his main course, completely undistracted from this by the conversation at hand and the drag show splitting his attention.

"Verity actually helped me find that volume of Vulcan poetry I've got. There's this little shop in the Nexus, not too far from the market. How are the cooking experiments going, by the way?" he asks, raising his eyebrows at Verity. She sounds like she's got a good handle on the whole 'food should taste good even if we have to do unconventional things to it' thing, so he's interested to see what she's come up with.