Don't believe in no-win scenarios

He did not know it was a game. Jim Kirk has never before played kal-toh. He looked at the set, deemed it broken, and decided he must fix it for Spock.

"Fascinating."

The tips of his ears have gone slightly green. He hopes that in his current state, Kirk will not notice the flush. He certainly does not desire to explain why he is slightly flustered.

"The sentiment is appreciated," he says first, of Kirk desiring to fix something of Spock's for him, "it is called kal-toh; it is a strategy game of Vulcan design. The goal is to return the shape to a perfect sphere. It can be played alone or collaboratively either by working out a solution together or by one party setting the beginning configuration for another to solve. To have reached a completed state in a single afternoon your first time playing is quite remarkable."

High praise from someone like Spock.