*Samus whirls again, and the look she gives Jim this time is distinctly annoyed.*

Don't even start that I-can't-get-there-because-the-goal-is-moving nonsense, you're captain of a starship. You know damn well how to catch up to a place in motion. Don't sabotage yourself as an excuse not to start.

*She gives him a stern eye, then turns again.*

As for your alternate? Speaking as someone who's changed a universe or two with time travel, that's just some stranger with whom you share a few details. If you don't want to stand in his shadow, then make your own light.