 What can you conclude about Hatcher's relationship with the rest of his team?
Suppose you call him "Hatcher" (and suppose you call it a "him.") Hatcher did not in any way look like a human being, but they had features in common. Hatcher, like McCray, was an adventurous soul, young, able, well-learned in the technical sciences of his culture. Hatcher's principal task at this moment was to run the "probe team" which had McCray under observation, and he was more than a little excited. Hatcher ordered silence, studying the specimen from Earth. Hatcher hurried through the halls of the great buried structure in which he worked, toward the place where the supervising council of all probes would be in permanent session.
 He does not always agree with them.
 He fights with them.  He does not understand his team.  He does not always agree with them.  He is much more brilliant than his team.