[It's weird being on this side of the conversation, and she gets what you're saying Kirk, really.]

The grey in your hair is telling me you're putting your own life a little lower on that scale. [It's said mildly, she knows very well what it's like to sacrifice your own life for one of your crew, but she doesn't know the alien well enough to feel anything but a vague sense of wrong due to her experiences with life-sucking creatures in the past.]

I've died before, Jim. It's not fun. I won't tell you to shove the thing out an airlock, but if we're stuck on this ship too long, volunteers might get harder to come by.