"I'm not naive," Dorrek sighs as he watches his young... what. Captive? Who knows how one should describe Gar. Dorrek just knows what he pities the man for being foolish. "You will speak. And there will be war. So tell me truly, you have seen my people. You have seen our strength. Perhaps only a little bit of it, but you have seen it. Will you truly subject your people to out and out war with us? Think of what all we might bring you, Gar. Our scientific advances. The safety and security of the whole empire at your backs. The ability to explore the stars, to have access to medicine you cannot fathom, to save your world from the destruction your people build for it."

Why does he care so hard about pitching the idea to Gar? Perhaps, Dorrek tells himself, it's about preparing for the day he will arrive on Earth and offer the same.

"Can you not imagine the strength that would give your people? The whole might of the Andromeda Cluster," and finally with that Gar can begin to fathom just how far from home he is, how alone, "at your backs. United with the Kree, who mostly control the Large Magellanic Cloud. Once we are united with the strong, creative, evolving people of the Milky Way, we will be an empire as none have ever known. None will ever threaten you again. That is what I offer. It will come to pass whether or not you will it. The question is how many lives you feel are worth losing along that path."