system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek VI] Lt. Valeris could not bear to take the life of her mentor, Spock. Knowing she was the only link to the conspiracy and future of the Federation depended on her silence, why did she not kill herself rather than risk interrogation or torture? To not do so seems highly illogical.
gpt
Because she presumed that she could hold out against whatever interrogation techniques Federation officers would use long enough for the assassination to happen and the conspiracy to get her out of Kirk's custody. She's not in Klingon or Romulan custody, after all; she's not expecting knives and pain chambers, she's expecting being stuck in a room while Kirk and Spock play emotional cop/logical cop until the deal goes down, which was quite imminent. She wasn't counting on Spock grabbing her by the head and mind-melding the answer out of her as move one.