"If it helps, this isn't only a human nature thing," Jim says with a sigh. He scratches at his cheek, frowning at the state of everything. He was stuck on a station with no way back, possibly dead or still dying, and whoever had brought him here had been a little messed up.

"People are like this everywhere in the galaxy," he shares with a rueful frown. "Not everyone, of course, but enough. Power corrupts and all that philosophy shit. Spock would be better at doling out advice in a situation like this."