She sighs. "I did love working with you. I just think the last battle revealed certain personal issues of mine that might conflict with my job. You don't really want someone with anger management problems manning a cannon."

She takes a seat too.

"And you might not have heard what I was, but I was the face of the general of the alienforce invading Earth. I don't delude myself into thinking either of us came onto this ship with clean hands, Ensign." She folds her hands across her lap. "I didn't kill anyone, at least. I used some extreme interrogation techniques on a captured terrorist."