Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Cult Sci-Fi Wisdom of the Week; Pain Edition

"Dammit, Bones - you're a doctor. You know pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us; the things that make us who we are. We lose them...we lose ourselves! I don't want my pain taken away. I need my pain."
-Captain James T. Kirk, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

"Leave me with my pain, it reminds me I'm human."
-Commander John Koenig, Space:1999, "Guardian of Piri"
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