The first thing Lieutenant Warren saw through her blurry vision as she regained consciousness, was Spock's stony appearance. Behind him stood the doctor and behind the doctor stood Mr. Scott, and both of their faces lit up upon seeing the woman's emerald eyes.

"Where's Ensign-" Warren struggled to speak, straining her neck to get a better view of the vacant biobed she had seen Van laying on before she passed out, "-Ensign Van?"

Bones reached out and placed his palms on her shoulders, encouraging her to lay back down. "Don't worry about the Ensign now," he said. "You need to get more rest."

"I need to know what happened to the Ensign," she pushed the words out with a labored breath. "Please. Is he alright?"

Spock was fascinated by the woman's lack of self-preservation and her insistence on knowing the Ensign's condition despite her own. "Ensign Van did not make it," Spock saw it no longer necessary to hide this fact from the Lieutenant.

McCoy twisted his torso to berate the Vulcan, "Spock! Why on Earth would you say such a thing?!"

"I see no point in hiding the truth from her, doctor," Spock justified his actions, but he was prepared for an argument with the neurotic medical officer nonetheless. "She wanted to know Ensign Van's condition. I simply stated the truth."

"It's called bedside manner, you cold-blooded Vulcan," Bones snapped, intentionally pushing himself forward into the Vulcan's personal space.

Warren couldn't care less about the bickering fools, only thinking about the Ensign. "Tell me what happened to the Ensign," she calmly asked.

McCoy leaned closer to the pale officer and answered, "He was found on deck seven near the Jefferies tubes; he had a heart attack."

"But how?" the Lieutenant tried to push herself upright again, but the doctor gently held her in place.

"He was electrocuted," Bones went on the explain, "But I'm afraid he wasn't found soon enough. We weren't able to resuscitate him."

"It was my fault," she replied, her shimmering eyes piercing the hearts of those three men, although one of them would never have admitted it. "I sent the Ensign to deck seven to realign some couplings and fuse some circuits, and he said he couldn't do it, and I told him he had to, and there was no one else around, and-"

"Susanna!" Bones brought her out of her ramblings. "You did what you had to and you did what was right; it wasn't your fault."

Spock watched tears drip from Lieutenant Warren's eyes. It was impossible to not sense the strength of her emotion; it was impossible to avoid feeling empathy for her. "Doctor McCoy is right," he supported Bones and pushed Warren's heartbreaking sadness away from his mind.

"I shouldn't have sent him," she reiterated.

Scotty stepped to the opposite side of the biobed and shared a look of pity with his officer. "Aye lass, you saved my ship," he said. "You may be one of the laziest, most frustrating, annoying-"

Spock raised a thoughtful brow at the chief engineer, interrupting him, "-If your intent is to make the Lieutenant feel better Mr. Scott, listing her failures as an officer is likely to further her current disposition."

"You're both terrible," Bones snarled. "My patient needs rest; I think it's about time you both leave before the two of you drain the will to live out of the poor woman."

However, Scotty couldn't leave without properly thanking the woman, "Aye, what I mean to say… What I mean to say is that I owe ye everything. You saved the Enterprise and her crew. I just wish you'd show some enthusiasm like that every day, lass."

"Alright, alright," Bones spoke as he began parading the two men out of sickbay, "I think that's enough."

Much to the doctor's frustration, Warren pushed herself up from the biobed to call out to the men, "Wait. What about Mooranda? Is she alright?"

Once again, Spock found it fascinating that the young woman seemed to care about everyone except herself. "Captain Kirk has spoken to her and the confusion in regards to our involvement with the destruction of the colony has been resolved," he answered.

With wide, concerned eyes, she said to Spock, "I know she didn't mean to hurt me. Don't punish her for what she did to me."

"I believe the Captain has come to the conclusion that the Hallonite woman meant us no harm," Spock's response relaxed the young Lieutenant. "She will stay with the Enterprise until we reach the next starbase."

A smile and a sigh came from the officer's mouth. "Good," she said.

Bones, who was further annoyed by the Vulcan's continuing conversation with the sick officer, physically shoved the Vulcan and Scotty through the door to sickbay. "Get some rest," he commanded Warren. "Everyone else will be okay. Thanks, Lieutenant. Thanks for everything you did."

Lieutenant Warren did not accept the doctor's gratitude, but she did follow his orders.

End of Episode One