The fact that she wished to seem certain was enough for him. She had proven herself to him well enough before for him to know that she didn't need his reassurances or coddling. Whether she fully believed her own words, there was determination to see it through. He had no concern that she would quit halfway through the puzzle. She was very like a Cardassian in that respect.

He keyed up a temporary access code for her. "This will allow you access to anything on the ship not classified. It won't allow you to log directly into any of the systems to affect a change, but only because if the crew isn't aware of us and we start trying to control things from here, they will assume the worst and put the ship on full lockdown. That would needlessly get in our way and cause them anxiety if we had to keep developing workarounds. I'm hoping we hear back from Damar soon."