And as you are invaded and violated, so you subconsciously revenge yourself by invading and violating others over whom you have authority or can exercise compulsion. physical or moral. In this way all life has become a crazy quilt of authority, of domination and submission, of command and obedience, of coercion and subjection, of rulers and ruled, of violence and force in a thousand and one forms.
-- Alexander Berkman
Fiona Craig
in reply to Ricki Yasha Tarr • • •rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually
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*cut to Geordi filling out paperwork with a Starbase engineer*
Geordi (going through checklist): Alien baby thought ship was its mother, check. Ship’s computer became sentient, check. Holodeck character *also* became sentient, check and check. Hm. What about when an ancient mask turned the ship into an ancient temple, is that just an “other”?
Starbase engineer: Second page.
Geordi: Ah, sorry. Aaaand check. Thanks!