[Feels a little brushed off, but worth filing away.]

I mean that’s…a great question. [There’s some mild annoyance to his tone, general rather than targeted at anything in particular.] I never even made it on the last mission, thanks to a little technological hiccup.

Maybe people “leaving” is just the transporter sending them to the wrong place. Permanently.

[A potentially grim thought depending on where that wrong place might be.]