This is also why all the Shakespeare stuff isn't just window dressing to class it up. It's a very deeply Shakespearean approach to villains and their motives.

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I've got faith...of the heart.

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You're not going to hold me down, oh no, you're not gonna change my mind.

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what latter-day trek failed to *believe*--and this starts with abrams imo--is that all that peace and diplomacy stuff actually works "oh all the talking is cute, it's Right, but it's actually just a cute little luxury, at the end we must resort to Force"

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the thing i come back to, over and over--which stuff like LOWER DECKS got, and so much other latter-day trek has forgotten--is that the whole idea of trek is that they exist in a genuinely horrifying universe, but *choose* to pursue peace and diplomacy anyways... and it works.

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