"Taking care of Jim Kirk was a full time job-- but someone had to do it, and it might as well be him. At least that way, if anything went wrong, he'd know exactly who to blame."

Aww. And that was a great shout-out to Harb Tanzer.

One thing, though--synthehol got invented a century early in this timeline? (If you'll recall, Scotty hadn't heard of it in that episode of TNG, so it couldn't have been present during Scotty Prime's lifetime.)