For a moment, Wash just stared, thought processes completely wiped out by that reply. What had happened to Bones to make him mistrust all soldiers that badly - badly enough that he'd still see Wash in that light? "I wasn't exactly planning to," he finally managed.

Wow. Just. Wow.

"Well, it sounds like Gems don't. Rose thinks we're cute, and Peridot thinks we're scum, but the basic attitude is pretty much the same." How Bones could keep thinking his was the only world with disagreeable aliens when Wash had told him about the Covenant's attempted genocide was beyond Wash, but evidently he'd barely scratched the surface when it came to Bones' thought processes.