"If that's all you're hearing, you're not listening to me," Jim said quietly, his hand clenching at his side. "Maybe you can't. I understand you've been through things I haven't. Maybe that distance is valuable. And maybe I've developed it through the things that have happened to me. Decisions I've had to make. Lives that have been in my hands. Do you think I've never had a difficult decision to make? That I've never seen atrocities committed before my eyes?

"This has nothing to do with the ship, aside from the possibility that she might be turned to our way of thinking and thereby solve our problems without bloodshed. This has everything to do with you. And your willingness to commit murder in cold blood, to abandon the legal and medical process, to let your anger guide you. To ignore the right of what's left of Vulcan to be part of that process, if at all possible. To determine the situation as it stands now."

Jim looked open and stricken, thinking about Kodos, thinking about what he'd wanted to do and counseling Kevin away from doing it. Kodos hadn't deserved the life he'd built for himself. But he hadn't deserved anyone's summary judgment.