And for some reason he felt compelled to tell Spock about the encounter years later.

The smile on the doctor's face told Spock that the human was not asking the question in a literal sense.

He didn't have to tell Spock where they were going, either.

His body language told Spock how anxious he was to get started.

Logic told Spock that such an action was the correct thing to have done, given the circumstances.

But now the computers were nearly mute and couldn't tell Spock much at all.

"There has to be some other action we can take," he told Spock, frustrated.

As he'd told Spock during the talk she'd given at their evening meal, he thought her uncommon.

He wanted to tell Spock there was no cause for worry.

"That's all been explained to him already," he told Spock.