:22:02
Tell me. What really happened?
:22:04
I do not wish to anger you.
:22:06
We are, after all,
brothers lost among infidels.
:22:12
Tell me,
how is it that you come to this ship?
:22:16
That uniform?
:22:18
Through an act of kindness.
:22:20
The Romulans attacked the Khitomer
outpost. Everyone was killed.
:22:25
I was buried under the rubble
and left for dead.
:22:28
A human Starfleet officer found me.
:22:31
He took me to his home on Gault and
told his wife to raise me as his son.
:22:37
How old were you?
:22:39
Before the Age of lnclusion.
:22:44
That young?
:22:45
Gault is a farming colony!
:22:52
When my foster brother and I were
of age, we entered Starfleet Academy.
:22:55
He hated it and returned to Gault.
I stayed.
:22:59
You haven't spent much time
among your own kind.
:23:02
Hardly none.
:23:04
So, when the night
was still and quiet,
:23:08
and the sound of the blood
in your veins filled your ears,
:23:12
the only way to silence it
was to slip out into the night,
:23:16
and like the hunter that spawned you,
:23:18
join in the struggle
of life and death.
:23:22
- You were unable...
- The others did not understand.
:23:26
- You frightened them.
- They shunned you.
:23:29
Cursed you, called you vile names,
and you knew not why.
:23:33
Even now,
do you know why you are driven?
:23:36
Why you cannot relent, or repent,
or confess, or abstain?
:23:44
How could you know?
:23:46
There have been no other Klingons
to lead you to that knowledge.
:23:50
Yes.
:23:52
Yes, those feelings
are still a part of me.