Just rewatched the "Four lights " episode a few days ago. He show such great strength in resisting the Cardassian, but in the final moment with Troi, he shows a different kind of strength in admitting that he was ready to say anything and that he actually could see 5 lights.

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There are plenty of *clever* pop-culture heroes, but very few who are genuinely wise, and not just some platitudinous fortune cookie simulacrum of wise. Who combine unbending principle with a recognition that many choices are hard & morally ambiguous, yet need to be made all the same.

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Same. There was something that felt really radical about having a TV hero whose superpower was not just intelligence but thoughtfulness, and a kind of moral seriousness. Who showed from that first episode that you “win” by seeking to understand what seems like a threat.

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As a former secondhand bookseller with a house full of books (though not on this scale) I read this with mixed understanding and alarm I must read Everything Will Swallow You 📚📚📚

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