"You are. And I'm pleased that there are parts of the universe that have experimented and achieved such feats that my own people could only dream of."

Although perhaps that was for the best. Greeks in space sounds like a poor idea at best, and an invitation to pure stupidity at worst.

"Mm. They may have better mastery, but there was doubtlessly a point in time in their experimentation when they had greater problems with the technology. It would make no sense otherwise, the trajectory of experimentation must follow the same, or at least a similar, arc."