"Oh, gross. I don't know, she was trying to suck all the salt out of my body all the while she looked like one of Bones' old flings." She'd, sadly, got to a couple of his crew already by that time, but Bones stopped her.

"I might prefer the alien cockroaches," he says with a chuckle. His teeth worry his bottom lip before he nods again.

"Yeah, I know. I had a lot to catch up on after I came out of it. Uhura and Bones filled me in on a few things that might have been ---selectively left out." Namely the fact that Spock had very nearly beaten Khan to death in a fit of rage.

Spock was shaken for a bit after that. It didn't help that then they nearly lost him to some Vulcan thing that they kept really tight-lipped about. Lucky for Spock, he's got a stubborn captain, and just giving up has never been Jim's way.