Lin doesn't know what the tricorder is, but she recognizes that uniform. She had several irritating conversations with crewmembers of the vessel, who seemed concerned about her apparently anachronistic mode of dress and possible level of threat to the ship. Since she hadn't wanted to be on their ship anyway, these conversations had not gone well. The security team was just as suspicious as her officers would have been, in a similar situation, so she couldn't exactly blame them, but she wasn't entirely pleased to see the boy either.

"What are you doing here?" she says, approaching him with an air of authority. Did they leave behind a scout or a spy?