"It's the damnedest thing. Back on the old Enterprise, the thing I hated most - the thing that would always make me cringe - was hosting one of those Federation ambassadors from hell. The kind who shows up thinking he knows more than the captain and ends up demonstrating he knows nothing at all." "And?" "And now, I've become the thing I hated. Now I'm the all-fired ambassador." "I see." "And just like all those other stuffed shirts, I've managed to make a mess of things by pulling rank. By insisting the captain do things my way. It's a good thing Jim's not around to see this."