"You never know," Sulu replied. "Everyone thought that it'd be New York, London or... something like them that became Federation headquarters, but instead it turned out to be San Fran." Of course, San Francisco was probably a bit bigger that Newport, so there was that. "But either way, who knows. You might get lucky."

He grinned, raising an eyebrow, "And what's the big deal between London and Cardiff? I mean, I dunno anything about Wales, so. I might be wrong, but isn't Cardiff a pretty big city on its own? There's a Cardiff in San Diego, after all, and we usually steal names from important British cities around here." Except for, apparently, Newport.