She obviously panicked a bit due to a very unpleasant previous life experience.
Star Fleet Officers are (mostly) only human after all.
Yeah, but there was no specific connection between this event and her past experience, so does she get like this where every time there's a crisis she always wants to do more? Is she constantly suggesting she go do things that aren't actually needed? At least with Rhys last week they tied his hurricane experience into a personal reason why he had a connection to that specific mission of evacuating the asteroid.
This one was just poorly written. Thumbs down.