"That's if the transmission was even meant for us."

Noticing her glancing around, he gestures to the seat that would belong to Sulu, if the pilot were here, for her to take.

"It could very well be that these outsiders-- if that's what it is, of course-- were trying to contact our captors and not us," he continues. "The radios could've simply...piggybacked, so to speak, unintentionally on the signal and picked up a sort of echo of it and not the full transmission. Analog waves aren't as strong or exact as digital modulations."