Jim shakes his head, keenly sympathetic to getting backstabbed by a first officer - granted, his own incident was over something genuinely against the rules, and Spock later (finally) understood the gravity of the betrayal. Her XO is human, he thinks, based on how she's spoken of him. No Vulcan principles to contend with, just grudges that captains don't have the luxury of indulging in.

"I'm gonna say something wildly unprofessional," is a great opener, "but that's unbelievably shitty of him. I understand - and I mean, I really understand, I had to drag members of my crew and civilians and children out of a Borg ship, still attached to their tubes and wires - but that's your exec."

That's basically mutiny, implies a guy who was once put in an escape pod and abandoned on a giant ice cube for inciting mutiny. It just makes him an expert on the subject.

"I'm-- sorry, is all." And kinda pissed on her behalf.