Can I hold out until the Enterprise arrives next week?
The space station that the Enterprise arrives at has been redesigned.
"But he did say that he expected the situation to be improved when the Enterprise arrived."
After nearly four weeks of uneventful travel, the Enterprise had arrived.
The Enterprise arrives in the system to find what looks to be a small colony on the surface.
If Enterprise never arrived, she knew that she would kill him eventually.
Enterprise could arrive at any time - or not at all.
If Enterprise never arrived, she would destroy the weapon herself.
He was aware the bodies would have to be kept until the Enterprise arrived, even though there were no facilities for doing so.
There, a day would have been lost to frantic scanning to determine that the Enterprise had never arrived.