S'on i est c'on hors en isse

But she does it alone. Spock quips that she's scarier than usual (scarier than when she stabbed the guy in the room with him?) and leaves her to it. No one's been taking her seriously when she says she's scared - not the medical staff, not her superiors. Spock and Kirk get to spend this episode bonding and healing from the griffin but what does La'an get? Confirmation that she's an inherently violent person? A horrific emotional hangover while everyone else jokes about how funny her crash-out was and once again refuses to take her fears seriously?

Sober Kirk plays it off as "yeah haha so funny you told me that!" as if he himself hadn't been parched for emotional intimacy, as if he didn't drunkenly let that happen because he desperately needed connection, as if last episode didn't end with him failing to connect with everyone else who matters to him.

and actually while i'm here,,,, the post-griffin scene with la'an and the report should have been with una not chris. no reason for chris, who talked la'an into going to therapy, whose whole deal in s1 was getting her to open up and get professional help, to get squirrelly. every reason for una - who hid genetic differences for years, who taught la'an how to be good at keeping secrets, who put la'an back together when she first met her and is probably deeply shaken to see her like this, who has only just been promoted to commander - to make a questionable call. we already know chris is capable of weird secretive calls, we saw it literally last episode. let una command!! also you know where we last saw ghosts in snw? fking. at an illyrian colony. which would have been a way more sensible common reference point than chris' spooky barn!!