"I should've known you were a mad genius the minute you managed to get Jim back on the ship," McCoy grumbles a quiet admittance, tipping his glass in salute to Scotty. "Besides, I'm fairly sure Pike wouldn't let anyone on that damn ship if they weren't an incredible genius. At least, all departments but medical. Swear to god, I was lucky for more than one competent nurse, some days," he bitches, mostly for the sake of doing it.

And maybe, just maybe, some small part of him misses his staff. Even the Nurse that had injected him with a sedative by mistake. ...okay, maybe not her.