Beverly turns over Stella's words in her head, trying to apply what she knows and has experienced to see if she can come up with anything that might serve as reassurance or support for the other woman. The entire situation is difficult and there's no denying that. For a variety of reasons, Beverly can understand all too well. Bending her knees almost to her chin and resting her arms on her knees, she lets out a very soft sigh as she considers what she can say to help at all.
"It reminds me a little of something that happened to me a few years ago," she starts carefully, focusing on a point off in the distance. "A brilliant scientific mind was murdered on the Enterprise and his work was almost stolen. It was... a huge ordeal. In the end, the man who was trying to steal his discovery forced me to kill him. I would have preferred to have been able to stun him, but his physiology made that impossible. I had to kill him to stop him. But the important thing was that he couldn't hurt anyone else. He didn't get to run off into the stars with that special shielding."
She glances back at Stella, watching with concern and understanding. "I put everything I had into that investigation, into finding out who had killed Doctor Reyga and why. I would imagine you did the same with yours. In the end... that man you caught can't hurt anyone else. He can't get what he wanted ever again and no one else will feel pain or loss by his hands. It might not be much, but... it's something to hold onto."
If she knew what the man really did to his victims, she would be using a much different example, something she hasn't spoken of since it happened and something that only Jean-Luc knows about. For now, this is what she has and she hopes it can be something of a small comfort for Stella.
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"It reminds me a little of something that happened to me a few years ago," she starts carefully, focusing on a point off in the distance. "A brilliant scientific mind was murdered on the Enterprise and his work was almost stolen. It was... a huge ordeal. In the end, the man who was trying to steal his discovery forced me to kill him. I would have preferred to have been able to stun him, but his physiology made that impossible. I had to kill him to stop him. But the important thing was that he couldn't hurt anyone else. He didn't get to run off into the stars with that special shielding."
She glances back at Stella, watching with concern and understanding. "I put everything I had into that investigation, into finding out who had killed Doctor Reyga and why. I would imagine you did the same with yours. In the end... that man you caught can't hurt anyone else. He can't get what he wanted ever again and no one else will feel pain or loss by his hands. It might not be much, but... it's something to hold onto."
If she knew what the man really did to his victims, she would be using a much different example, something she hasn't spoken of since it happened and something that only Jean-Luc knows about. For now, this is what she has and she hopes it can be something of a small comfort for Stella.