“We like to tell ourselves we’re enlightened. That we’re more peaceful, more open-minded than the other civilizations out there.” Kirk shook his head. “What gets me is that, to the Agni, we acted just like all the others. Is that what we’ve become? So overprotective of what we have that we’ve become fearful of outsiders? In defending the physical borders of the Federation, have we forgotten what we were really fighting to protect?”
