"See, Bones, the thing about space? It's big. And not just big, but…" he gave a dismissive wave of his hand, "spacey."
McCoy snorted and shook his head.
"I mean it," said Kirk. "You know how you look up at the sky at night and it's all full of stars? That's a lie. Because when you actually go and look at them, they're nowhere near each other. It's like someone took a few grains of sand and dropped them in a swimming pool."
"You're only discovering this now?"
"Knowing it and seeing it are different."