[Now there is nothing Rip can do to hide the grin that flashes across his face. True, such a rank doesn’t necessarily mean that she is the commander of a ship, but with that stubborn streak she’s already shown, the resourcefulness of using available technology to attempt to amplify her own, and something unspoken in her presence?

Rip stands quite certain that there is a vessel she helms.]

Unfortunately you’ll find that most people around here don’t appreciate formal titles, Captain. [Which rates as nothing more than a minor annoyance, but still one that will forever needle at Rip.] However, since you’ve offered yours:

[And because he has to see if she is somehow from the future of his own world.]

Captain Rip Hunter, of the Waverider.