Spock and Dr. McCoy both gave the same answer at the same time.
"What!?"
"All due respect, Dr. Jaresh," McCoy hissed, "but are you out of your rice-fed mind? We need to track down a murderous psychopath, and you want to do it by waking up another cold-blooded killing machine to set on his trail? Maybe I'm missing something here, because that sounds insane."
"Actually," Spock said, "Dr. Jaresh's idea is one of merit. One of Khan's fellow Augments would logically be the best equipped to track and apprehend him."
"Oh, you agree with this plan? Forgive me if that doesn't make me feel any better."
"I did consider the fact that the Augments are historically an extremely violent group of individuals," Dr. Jareshput in, "and I've-"
"Calling these people 'extremely violent,'" Dr. McCoy snapped, "is like calling the N'vobian plague 'extremely inconvenient.' The Augments were designed for war. They were literally made to kill people!"
"Not originally," Dr. Jaresh said hotly. "And because of that, there are some Augments who are less dangerous than the others. As I was going to say, I've found one who I think will be willing to help us."
"Oh, really? What'd you do, wake them up and ask, 'Hey, would one of you be willing to help us wrangle up your ol' buddy Khan? He's just escaped from imprisonment after he crashed a massive starship into San Francisco.'"
"I think your sarcasm," Dr. Jaresh sniffed, "is a little unwarranted at this time."
"You will have to forgive Dr. McCoy," Spock said. "His hostility is merely the outward manifestation of his fear."
McCoy shot the Vulcan a poisonous look. "Yes, well, excuse me for being hostile toward a plan that could get us all killed!"
"Your melodramatics are also unnecessary, doctor. Please follow me this way, gentlemen."
Spock and McCoy followed Dr. Jaresh. She led them to the very last row of cryotubes.
"You'll recall, Dr. McCoy, the neurological scans we ran back when our research on the Augments first began," she said. To Spock, "The scans we took recorded each Augments' level of brain activity while frozen in cryosleep. But they also picked up on different neurotransmitter levels. We found that a few of the Augments had a decreased amount of certain chemicals in the brain that are associated with aggression and violence. Decreased compared to the other Augments, that is."
"I remember all that," Dr. McCoy said. "Those scans also sheowed that those same few had increased activity in areas of the brain that have to do with empathy and moral differentiation. In other words, these Augments have increased empathy and decreased aggression. But only in relation to the other Augments. There's still a significant margin between their levels and those of a normal, non-augmented human."
"I take it that you intend for one of these more subdued Augments to assist me in recapturing Khan," Spock said to Dr. Jaresh.
"That's right," she said. She gestured to the row of cryotubes. "These individuals are more likely to cooperate and less likely to kill you. In fact, there's someone specific I had in mind." Dr. Jaresh laid her hand on one of the cryotubes. Through the ice Spock could see the vague, sleeping features of a male Augment.
"I personally call him John," Dr. Jaresh's said, "though of course there's no way to know his real name for now. But John's neurochemical makeup is the most different from all the other Augments. Based on this, he is the most likely to be willing to help."
"I'm still not clear on something," McCoy said. "How exactly do you plan on convincing any of these Augments to help us? Maybe you don't remember, but the whole reason Khan went beserk in the first place was because he was trying to rescue his frozen buddies from Admiral Marcus. If he's any indication, then these guys are pretty loyal to each other. Are you just assuming one of them's gonna agree to capture his friend and then just quietly go back into his cryotubes?"
"I assume nothing," Dr. Jaresh's retorted sternly. "However, since he is so neurologically different from the other Augments, I'm hoping that John will be more reasonable. Hopefully we'll be able to make him see that it would be devastating to the human population if Khan and his compatriots were allowed to roam free."
"Hisotrically, the Augments have shown very little concern for human life," Spock pointed out. "The original Eugenics War during the late twentieth Earth century resulted in over thirty million human casualties. Furthermore, in our dealings with Khan it was evident that he believed that humans are inferior beings and that as such he felt we ought to be wiped out. If his fellow Augments still hold the same sentiments, then it is unlikely that we will be able to persuade one of them to help us for the sake of the human race."
"Well then," the lady doctor sniffed, "we'll just have to hope that John was the voice of reason that is so often ignored during war. Because right now, he's our best hope."