Nearly the instant she says it, Gaeta arrives to the same conclusion. One corner of his mouth twists in something very much like helplessness.

"I know," he says. "But...someone I've spoken to there, Dr. Simon Tam -- " Gaeta turns a hand palm up. "When he mentioned he'd seen the admiral, he also told me it'd been years since he had seen him."

A pause, then, considerably more wryly: "In fact I had to correct him when he asked if I knew a Commander Adama."