[ Jim notes the hesitation on Era's part, and offers a gentle smile that dispels his earlier frown. ]
It's just a tricorder. It scans things, like this, and stores the information for later. It won't hurt you.
[ He figures that's the easiest way to go about that, and hopes that it eases some of the concern he'd seen on her face. After she takes it, though, and seems a little more at ease, he reaches out to place the flat of his palm against the black stone. The room lights up all around them both, data spiraling to life as if it were actually alive. There are names, places, locations---everything. It's his whole life.
His whole life is right here, all the way up until the point that he arrived here after losing the Enterprise. ]
It's everything. That's---[ Jim looks away from the data, and peers into the darkness beyond them both as if it were hiding anything else. As if they were being watched. ]---my entire life. How could it know that?
no subject
It's just a tricorder. It scans things, like this, and stores the information for later. It won't hurt you.
[ He figures that's the easiest way to go about that, and hopes that it eases some of the concern he'd seen on her face. After she takes it, though, and seems a little more at ease, he reaches out to place the flat of his palm against the black stone. The room lights up all around them both, data spiraling to life as if it were actually alive. There are names, places, locations---everything. It's his whole life.
His whole life is right here, all the way up until the point that he arrived here after losing the Enterprise. ]
It's everything. That's---[ Jim looks away from the data, and peers into the darkness beyond them both as if it were hiding anything else. As if they were being watched. ]---my entire life. How could it know that?