In return, her very simple question spoke volumes to him. "The year is twenty-two fifty eight by the Gregorian calendar." It was sometimes called the Old Earth Calendar, but Khan personally found that grating. So she actually was from the United States, sometime after the colonial period and before First Contact. Her clothing suggested something during or after the twentieth century, which would mean she was from a later period than Khan.

The next questions she would be asking were obvious, and so Khan took it upon himself to answer them first. "You were suspended in a micro-reality outside of any stable time-space continuum. I detected your quantum signature and recreated your physical form, molecule by molecule. For some reason you had ceased to exist."