[He wishes he was surprised, but he's not. He stares at Kirk, reaches up and rubs at his face in a way that is mostly to give himself something to do before answering him, and then, well, shakes his head.

And gives him a bit more of a look at that and points at him.] No, because you can't take a minute to look past your own problems and consider the bigger picture.

If I had told Spock when we first met, whose to say he would have believed me? Me, the living, standing [for now] embodiment of an officer that's not either for him, or similar. And what happens if you need him and he doesn't listen? That for once someone listens to you and then doesn't do what you think they should.

And I never said I had no intentions of telling him, remember that.