[He applied the pad and started wrapping the gauze around to hold it in place, idly remembering his one and only mission for the Malnosso. They were on a ship at sea...and he never believed that creatures of that magnitude even existed before that trip]

Starfleet officer or not, this isn't a ship battle. Things exist here that are hard to imagine anywhere else, so you're just relatively untested.

...and you did only just recover yourself. Don't think too hard on it.

[Because, while he was worried, he wouldn't place any blame on Spock or anyone else.]