He's not so much of an idiot that he scoffs at the danger. He knows full well he's just not cut out to be a fighter, at least not in the traditional sense. Most of the command crew could easily lay him out - though he draws some comfort from the idea that if it came down to it, he could do fairly well against Scotty. Maybe. If the prize wasn't a stack of Engineering technical journals. Kirk, however? Spock? Uhura? It's not even approaching a fair fight.

"Darlin', I serve on board a ship of the line, the flagship at that. By all rights, what we've been through already, I have no right to be alive in the first place. I refuse to live my life in fear of what might happen down the road." His tone is vehement, but part of that is due to the adrenaline slammed into his system just a few moments before.