[ Jim quirks an eyebrow, but doesn't call him out on the second question because Zell's complimenting him just then and he's not a complete butt. Sometimes. He may or may not be trying to flex his arm where Zell can feel it.

This is a great distraction from the awful thing at the heart of talking about the black hole. ]

Mm. Whole ship almost got pulled in. Not everyone made it.

[ He hasn't really had the time to let it sink in too hard that Arrow wasn't his fault, but it makes thinking about this less painful now. ]

Remember how I told you there was a guy on board that really wanted to kill me? He killed the first officer that day. It was my job to secure the life lines, but in the chaos he cut them.