Jim looked at Kirk's profile for a moment, limned in light and beautiful. Then he looked back out over the water.

"I'd keep looking for a solution, but yes. And if none was forthcoming, no signal received... I don't know. Put Pike someplace he couldn't hurt anyone else, couldn't reach anyone. Maybe that's as good as a death sentence, but I'm not an executioner." And neither are you, he thought privately. "I'd like to believe he could be rehabilitated. But I think it's gone too far for that."