or the safety of this Fleet to indulge

不能拿舰队的安全来迁就这十二个
the neediness of 12 perpetually unhappy representatives.

永远不会满足的代表
I can't.

我不能
I was with them on the emergency jump.

我当时和他们一起呃紧急跳跃的时候
And I saw something in the faces of the delegates.

我从那些代表的脸上看出了异样
It wasn't the anxiety from waiting. It went beyond that.

不是等待时的焦虑远不止这些
I was anxious. It was my first time. But they... They...

我很担心.这是我第一次这样但他们...他们…
They were empty.

他们很空虚
The Quorum had given up.

法人团已经放弃了
And then it struck me that

经过如此多次
after going through the same routine so many times,

一成不变的例行公事后我突然明白
it was the only way that they could cope with the uncertainty.

这是他们应对不确定问题的唯一方法