[Half the time there was an aspect of jealousy, wasn't there? People attracted to other people, and then it became messy in the meantime. It was a shame that Kirk perhaps hadn't noticed the eyes that Tina had been interested in that way, but then again, he could see it. Kirk wasn't on the look out and once there was the illness, no doubt it sucked all attention.

He shifted to stand next to Kirk, leaning their shoulders together as the other man continued to weave a sad and complicated tale. No wonder the other man didn't want to talk about it.]

It sounds like he had taken a bad path long before he came and captured you and put you at such risk. You know that her death isn't your fault, right?

[He wouldn't know what it was like being fooled by a machine. The bots here were the most high tech entities he had encountered, but he knew that wasn't the same for other people.]

What happened?