More than just a betrayal of these officers. Cambridge thinks it quietly, shielded, but billions died in the Borg invasion. Entire planets were wiped out. Families. People. Loss on even that kind of scale is beyond a human mind.

"You don't even know what's on the other side of the scales," he says, tightly, and somewhat ironically. "But keeping secrets? No. The officers of this time are not my colleagues. Not quite." Because he isn't their colleague.

"Powerful telepathy you have," he remarks. "Most ones I've come into contact with work by touch."