"They do tend to learn it eventually." McCoy replies heavily. The last few weeks have been rough on everyone on board ship, and frankly, he's tired of piecing everyone back together from something he cannot predict or protect them from. Other CMOs get outbreaks of Reglian Flu or battle injuries... he gets insane kid-gods and deadly mutated water molecules.

"You'd trust this old fool again?" He asks, acutely aware of the problems with his wording after he says them.