She'll be processing what Lal has told her for days - quietly and away from the girl. What she's saying is too horrible to think about. Starfleet - the people who took the two of them in and gave them lives they -

No, she can't justify saying Commander Data didn't, in some way, love his life.

"The Captain was right," she says hollowly. "I am - was - responsible for the safety of everyone on board." But they both know there's more and that fact hangs in the room like a fog.

"Did it help? Did it save his life?"