Hold on to it. [ for longer than just tonight. she knows their weapons are few and far between, and both chakotay and harry arrived with phasers on them. she can part with one out of three. ] Take it apart, have a look, see if you can get any ideas from it. I can reassemble it if you run into any problems with that.

[ normally she wouldn't condone letting someone from an earlier time period have 24th century technology, but she feels that giving him the means to defend himself and his people, as well as a possible basis on which to build from, is necessary. especially given their current situation with khan, even if he is "willing" to play nice. ]