"It's a toss up, I'm not sure he appreciates it when I ask how the half-human side of him is doing too, since he tends to ignore that."

Yeah, well, it was his first time. First and last, he hopes. If the sharing part wasn't weird enough, the freight train of emotion that pummeled him after was downright awful.

Jim chuckles a little at that. "Elevator music? What about reprogramming the computer to make smart remarks?" Hey, he can be a sounding board. He shakes his head at the realization on the other man's part that it might come back on Jim.

"Trust me, I can take whatever he dishes out. Personally, I think he needs to get that space stick he's got shoved somewhere removed. Medical might be able to help with that."

If he can survive an Admiral and man he looked up to as a father figure choosing the most inopportune moments to cockblock him at bars---he can survive anything Picard throws at him, he's sure.