[Kirk folds his arms and leans his hip against the console, but the weight in his gaze has less to do with any kind of judgement as it has to do with the privacy of the conversation. though Nathan is facing the door, Jim is aware of it in his periphery. he considers locking it, but knows that'll probably ring all kinds of alarms if someone comes along. after all, most of the people on the Scylla weren't civilians.]
You did what I would have done. [plain and simple; if Kirk had been in charge of this ship from the beginning, it would have been on his list. find a way to communicate, call out to a starbase. something. it was standard procedure: ask for help. the risk that it could have gone sideways was always there. it was in their own universe, with all the hostile species out there.
and Kirk might not have communicated it to anyone else, either. it was Comms job to do it, there would have been no sense in telling any other department. they weren't involved. but seeing this fall out, hearing the arguments in the Lupin boy's post— that isn't the way things can work up here. not if they want to avoid catastrophe again.]
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You did what I would have done. [plain and simple; if Kirk had been in charge of this ship from the beginning, it would have been on his list. find a way to communicate, call out to a starbase. something. it was standard procedure: ask for help. the risk that it could have gone sideways was always there. it was in their own universe, with all the hostile species out there.
and Kirk might not have communicated it to anyone else, either. it was Comms job to do it, there would have been no sense in telling any other department. they weren't involved. but seeing this fall out, hearing the arguments in the Lupin boy's post— that isn't the way things can work up here. not if they want to avoid catastrophe again.]