I'm afraid he did, and I'm afraid he used it. Something that was... a momentary blessing in disguise, in it's own twisted way, though ultimately not worth the lives lost in the struggle to obtain it. You see, Jim, at the time, the Enterprise was being used to train command track cadets. When they heard that something fishy was going down in that sector, there were primarily cadets on board with a supervisional staff who were both there to teach and simply along for what should've been a short, harmless ride.