[ He definitely wouldn't care about something so silly, but if keeping things around helped her feel less bad about using up his stuff then he wouldn't stop her, really. One way or the other, he wouldn't mind. ]

Right. Humans are social creatures. We may not all feel the need to be popular, but everyone likes to have some friends, people they get along with.

[ It could get terribly lonely otherwise. Even Jim had felt that way at times, and he was always surrounded by his whole crew, a few of them being close friends of his. ]

Why, thank you. I'm touched. [ Do Starfleet uniforms count as matching outfits, though... ] They don't really see it that way, I guess. They see it as being in the spotlight, the center of attention.