Reflections

Posted on Thu Apr 24th, 2025 @ 2:44am by Lieutenant Imik S'Niohun
Edited on on Thu Apr 24th, 2025 @ 12:04pm

400 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Genetic Purity
Location: Imik's cabin
Timeline: Present

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Imik had returned to her cabin to change, she felt somehow dirty and used after the assault on the colony. "Augments", it was a word the crew seemed to think dangerous. But in a way, she, Imik was an augment.

She was psychic and had slightly more strength than a Human, she could survive where they could not. True the Humans could handle heat better than an Ojnas, did that make them an augment to her people?

Evil was a concept that depended on your view of reality, what some thought of as evil others saw as a necessity to survive. Both the Humans and the Ojnas had cultural differences, did that make one evil and the other good? And depending on which species you were, directly related as to how you saw that difference.

The Federation had its prime directive, how many species looked upon that directive as evil? How many times had the Federation stood by and watched as a civilization died or was conquered by another and hidden behind the prime directive? Was that non-action by the Federation not an evil act? Did that by extension, not make the Federation evil within its self?

The Ojnas had met with what it described as evil when the Tholians first attacked then invaded their systems, but how did the Tholians see this act? Did they see the Ojnas as evil? Were her people evil in how they reacted and interacted with the Federation? Was she, Imik, an evil being for her dislike of non-psychic beings? Did this dislike make her the same as the augments, their distain of something or someone that was different to themselves?

Now the broken colony sat with weapons trained upon it, with systems designed to stop certain things or people from entering. Did that make the Washington evil for making it possible for the Federation to do that, for making it easier to control a people, a colony, a planet?

Yes the colonists had attacked and injured the away team, but why had they done so? Did they see the team as less than themselves or as a possible threat? Actions speak louder than words, or so the Humans say. But the actions of both sides were far from perfect, even this Ojnas had indulged in the destruction and killing of the augments. Did that act alone not condemn her as evil?

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