She has question, most of which pertain to Earth's defense systems, and why nobody on the ground was doing anything about a starship caught in the planet's gravitational pull, but those aren't the questions to ask. They aren't the ones that Kirk needs her to ask, so she remains silent as she listens, absorbing every detail he's willing to provide her with. True to her nature, she remains completely unreadable while doing so, even upon hearing that he died in the decontamination chamber.

That was Spock in her time. Spock was the one who died saving the Enterprise, who was subsequently brought back to life -- though by a rather indirect series of events. Nobody made the decision to revive him, to harness the blood of an augment, but let him go in peace as she's done to more members of her crew than she likes to think about (but will continue to beat herself up about well past the day they cross the threshold into Federation Space).

Janeway nods, duty bound to respond in the way protocol demands and not the way she ultimately would like to.

"Like I said -- I will personally appeal to the City overlords if that's what it takes to get you through this."