He rises anyway. It's less a courtesy and more a reflection of discomfort. Now he's here, really sitting in his own Captain's chair with Picard standing over him, the chair represents makes him feel like he's on uneven ground, something that hadn't really been troubling him until exactly this moment. But he's always preferred standing on his bridge anyway, or moving about the ship poking his nose into everything that was happening. There was plenty of room to be still when he was dead, and apparently it was going to be a good long wait.
"You've more than outdone yourself, Captain. You didn't have to go out of your way--why, those quarters are bigger than our entire mess hall." He pauses for a moment. "Do you sleep in a room like that? I don't know what I'd do with all the space, myself." But Porthos would have loved it. Moreover the beagle would have enjoyed not being the only housepet on the ship. Probably yet another tradition he was responsible for perpetuating--he was losing count of those.
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He rises anyway. It's less a courtesy and more a reflection of discomfort. Now he's here, really sitting in his own Captain's chair with Picard standing over him, the chair represents makes him feel like he's on uneven ground, something that hadn't really been troubling him until exactly this moment. But he's always preferred standing on his bridge anyway, or moving about the ship poking his nose into everything that was happening. There was plenty of room to be still when he was dead, and apparently it was going to be a good long wait.
"You've more than outdone yourself, Captain. You didn't have to go out of your way--why, those quarters are bigger than our entire mess hall." He pauses for a moment. "Do you sleep in a room like that? I don't know what I'd do with all the space, myself." But Porthos would have loved it. Moreover the beagle would have enjoyed not being the only housepet on the ship. Probably yet another tradition he was responsible for perpetuating--he was losing count of those.