Well, Zouichi did do some work. Although for him, it was incredibly... well, it didn't take much out of him.

"Priorities or not, we're all still here, aren't we?" His tone was dry; while he could understand why he was still on this ship, the same was not necessarily true of everyone else. Did they stay here out of determination? Fear? Apathy?

Or maybe just a sense of familiarity and an unwillingness to leave the ship to face the nebulous threat of giant psychic space bugs on their own. "Anyway, I thought Medical got up to shower the world with your sparkling good cheer."