[ And it's too bad, because if Data could just tell him that he was with Picard, only captains, passing a baton across generations, it might make it hurt less. But he doesn't know that it hurts at all, blissfully unaware, and so there is just an artificial pause before he speaks again, a precise number of nanoseconds calculated to be an acceptable distance in a change of topic, nothing more. ]
voice;
If that is all, Sir?