Or you could try to find way to be less miserable, that's also a viable solution.

[ Just a suggestion, really, though Jim wonders how interested Kirigan would be in that. Maybe he's just more familiar with being miserable, and it makes it somehow easier because of that.

While it's true that training for the sake of these missions isn't exactly what Jim would call a hobby, it's at least something. Better than sitting around walling in his own misery. So he says nothing to that. ]

The space surrounding us, the probability of multidimensional travel, and the kind of technology and energy sources required to achieve that. I'd love to poke around in the transporter room and the engineering of this station, but I haven't had much luck so far. I might talk to Viveca about it sometime.