[He should be grateful anyway. Neither of the other prisons were even in space, so the setting is an upgrade in spite of everything else.]

I know that it's possible to request a transfer, I can make the necessary arrangements.

Even if you had no title, I would still consider you my captain. [It's true, and he can't say that he wants something familiar here to distract himself from how very much he wants to be elsewhere, can he? They're in spaceships. They have a mission, sort of, and Kirk is the captain of a ship. He can slip right into the same role he plays at home and forget that this isn't home and he's more than two years removed from his old crewmates.] These ships have bridges, correct? I can sit at my station and you can order me around and it will be just the same as home.