[ She looks over; her manner softens just a little. So she shrugs. ]

We're celebrities, aren't we. Intergalactic travelers. All of this attention and praise - we don't get it because we've done anything yet. We get it because we might do something. Because they want to win us over so that when something does hit, we're already predisposed to support them. We can help them. They want to make sure we will.