You let a little thing like a flood get in your way? [Narvin enjoys his trolling.]

Well, I was thinking of bringing you on my project team--we're working on temporal mechanics, chronon research--but if you can't manage a simple particle accelerator without getting distracted...[By massive dimensional disruption and temporary total identity change]...I just don't know.

[Nevermind that Narvin had been so disrupted by the flood that he'd been begging the Admiral to let him be an inmate.]