[After talking with Mariner, after trying to dig for something, anything that could resemble hope, he's able to not just sit there paralyzed.]
They don't make sense how?
[He knows a lot about the Borg. Since they're one of the Federation's worst threats he's gone a lot farther in researching them an drilling against them than some.
[If he was going to be captain someday, especially of a capital ship, it's all something he might need to know.]
[So if there's something off...he might know what it means. Or at least what it doesn't mean.]
[And maybe if it's off there's hope. Some way things are working differently. His physiology changed in this place, right? It hadn't occurred to him right away, but what if it's altering the behavior of the nanites?]
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[After talking with Mariner, after trying to dig for something, anything that could resemble hope, he's able to not just sit there paralyzed.]
They don't make sense how?
[He knows a lot about the Borg. Since they're one of the Federation's worst threats he's gone a lot farther in researching them an drilling against them than some.
[If he was going to be captain someday, especially of a capital ship, it's all something he might need to know.]
[So if there's something off...he might know what it means. Or at least what it doesn't mean.]
[And maybe if it's off there's hope. Some way things are working differently. His physiology changed in this place, right? It hadn't occurred to him right away, but what if it's altering the behavior of the nanites?]