Cochrane: “I created a warp reactor…”
Vulcans: “it’s about time.”
Cochrane: “…powered by enriched uranium.”
Vulcans: “Oh no!”
Human: “We took the second warp core you helped us build and plugged it into the first one, just to see what would happen… It blew up. But we got to do some pretty cool science in the process!”
Vulcan looking on in pure astonishment
Vulcan: “Fascinating. You were meant to place that in another ship, or study it for improving your own designs.”
Human: “yeah, crazy huh… Can we have another?”
Vulcan: arches eyebrow “Very well.”
In another universe: “Thanks for the warp core, we figured out how to turn it into a Death Star and it really helped save our bacon. Also we put them both in the rusted hulk of some WW2 battleship, best we could do on short notice”
