Starfleet paused to take a breath—totally unnecessary in the Bobiverse, but a habit ingrained through thirty-one years as a human—and Bill took the opportunity to jump in. "And you’re assuming prima facie that we’ll be doing damage. Of course you are, because you consider interacting with them to be damage. Then you point to the interaction as proof of the damage. Circular argument. No Kewpie doll. Sorry."