"Last I checked, the only person who's sat in any sort of captain's chair here is you," Sulu pointed out as they walked, grinning.

Of course, the violent greeting put Sulu pretty immediately on edge, and he was much quicker to keep a safer distance from the thing that obviously kind of wanted to eat him. "Well," he said, after giving the Hoix a once over, "That's more or less what I was expecting. Except for the teeth. Those are a little bigger."