Do you think he did?

_{[ He didn't have an answer for Steve, but what he had seen on that tape - no, he didn't think so. He'd either been torn to shreds or infected himself, and that wasn't any kind of life. But if Steve wanted to hold out hope, Kirk wasn't going to tear it away from him. He'd had enough take away from him already - they'd both had. Anyone who came here had. The world they lived in now was cruel enough without adding his own dark theories atop it. ]}

For saying we're their last hope, they aren't keen on making us comfortable.