"Yeah," Jim agrees. "Spock took some... convincing, but he eventually saw that it was the right call." It's a far less damning way of saying that Jim goaded him into trying to strangle a subordinate officer to prove he was emotionally unstable.

He nods a little at Shade-Seeker's assessment of the story. "It was a great victory with a horrible cost. A cost we never should've had to pay. But even looking back, I'm not sure I could have done anything differently."