He senses Kirk's disappointment ... in all honesty, it's pretty hard to miss. But they have a mission to get to, and he'd rather they not arrive too far down in the dumps. The best thing he can manage right now is to turn the Admiral's thoughts to something else.

"Replicated?" Artie's unfamiliar with the term, but he can make a pretty educated guess at what it means. "I'm not sure how they do it, honestly. Though I did meet a young man in one of the bakeries around here who told me that the Initiative's able to use its travel technology to get some things from other worlds and ration it."