“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn,” rage, revenge
Like the timing of a lot of quotes I post, this one painfully parallels things going on in my personal life.
It’s from the scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, where Kirk rescues Chekov and Captain Terrell from the space station. Kahn had been there, but left.
He had to get back to Reliant in time to blow you to bits,” Terrell says to Kirk.
No worries — my life isn’t literally in danger (but thank you for your concern). But the metaphor is very much on point. Obsessive folks, blinded to all the fantastic opportunities around them, heading to destructions of their own makings. Worse still, at a time when there is so much greatness available to them otherwise, were they not so filled with rage and hubris.
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