Without a popular base, he has played potential enemies against each other.

There was no harm in looking over a potential enemy.

Everyone else has to be seen as a potential enemy.

In other words, he has to know all of his potential enemies.

Part of it was just being in this tight space again, one that the potential enemy knew far better than he did.

He figured they weren't much of a threat to him, but it was always good to know your potential enemy.

And a potential enemy might get the measure of his abilities.

Sitting close to a potential enemy was against all instinct.

Kirk didn't want to sit down, not in front of two potential enemies.

This near a potential enemy, even a whisper would give him away.