by S. D. Perry p.65 "I'm after the truth, Jim," Darres said. "If I'm wrong about him, I'm wrong." p.66 One of the many things that serving under Captain Kirk had taught him was that finding one's way around a directive sometimes created the most expeditious path to one's objective. Or, as the captain himself had once said, there was nothing wrong with bending the rules every now and then to get where you needed to go. p.82-83 "I think there has always been and always will be people who will uphold their ideals, no matter what--just as there are people who are weak, who will fold when the pressure gets to be too much," she said, looking into his eyes as he spoke. "But I also think that there are those who eventually come to believe that it's not as simple as all that, that there are complexities to be considered beyond black and white, right and wrong. People who start to see that moralistic disguise, that can actually end up jeopardizing the very ideals they seek to uphold." She smiled faintly, but not with any reason that he could tell. "It can create a paradox, if you think about it--is it wrong to compromise your beliefs in order to preserve them?" p.168 It seemed that the doctor had been wandering around the steppes too long without a hat.
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