When Talla Shran is rescued she doesn't fully understand what is going on. She knows these people mean her ill but they are so stupid she can barely see them as posing a threat. So she isn't scared. Her father tells her that this is because she's brave, which is fitting because she'll be a warrior one day like all shen in her clan, but when she grows older and looks back on the whole thing Talla wonders if she isn't the stupid one.
They don't feed her so she complains constantly, even when one of them threatens her with a phaser. She just rolls her eyes
"You can't kill me, you need me for something. I can read your mind you know, though it's so boring I don't know why I bother"
This isn't entirely true. She can't read thoughts like her mother can but she does get feelings, impressions, she can tell when people are lying, and she gets ideas of a person's character. Her captor glares at her and asks one of his colleges why she needs to be kept alive. The other one says its because they can't get what they want out of her father if she's dead.
When she's rescued she's glad not only to get something to eat but to be in the presence of other minds. She likes the ones on Enterprise. She thinks she'd like to stay here for a while, they've moved around so much the past few years she doesn't see why they can't. The captain's is warm and welcoming, everything offers itself up to her, the security officer's is very guarded but once she concentrates she notices how delicate he is behind his defenses.
The one that intrigues her the most though is the Vulcan female's, it keeps shifting on her whenever she tries to get a fix on it. The woman, who is called T'Pol, catches her staring at her. "What is it little one?" she asks and Talla gets one consistent impression that children make her uncomfortable.
"They say Vulcans don't have emotions but you have lots, they don't get along either" T'Pol raises her eyebrow.
"They don't get along?"
"You know what I mean" insists Talla raising her antennae defensively. …like about the engineer, the blonde one with the…"
"I don't think what you are doing is very polite. What do you think your parents would say if she knew you were intruding on other people's thoughts?" Her antenna curl up on themselves a little guiltily
"I'm sorry Miss T'Pol" now she feels especially bad because her father told her that she shouldn't apologize to people (except him and her mother), especially not Vulcans or Tellarites.
"Apologizing doesn't change whatever you've done and it just makes you look weak" he's told her on more than one occasion. Though recently it seems like he's had trouble with his own advice. Because she hears him apologizing profusely to the captain about someone called "Commander Tucker". Something bad must have happened to him because she can feel the waves of sadness coming off of everyone on the ship, especially the captain and the Vulcan. She hopes it isn't really her father's fault since he already feels guilty enough about this whole thing.