:22:00
then his death
would have been more glorious.
:22:02
If the opponent was not an enemy,
who was it?
:22:07
Tell me. What really happened?
:22:09
I do not wish to anger you.
:22:12
We are, after all,
brothers lost among infidels.
:22:17
Tell me,
how is it that you come to this ship?
:22:21
That uniform?
:22:23
Through an act of kindness.
:22:25
The Romulans attacked the Khitomer
outpost. Everyone was killed.
:22:30
I was buried under the rubble
and left for dead.
:22:33
A human Starfleet officer found me.
:22:37
He took me to his home on Gault and
told his wife to raise me as his son.
:22:42
How old were you?
:22:44
Before the Age of lnclusion.
:22:49
That young?
:22:50
Gault is a farming colony!
:22:57
When my foster brother and I were
of age, we entered Starfleet Academy.
:23:00
He hated it and returned to Gault.
I stayed.
:23:04
You haven't spent much time
among your own kind.
:23:07
Hardly none.
:23:09
So, when the night
was still and quiet,
:23:13
and the sound of the blood
in your veins filled your ears,
:23:17
the only way to silence it
was to slip out into the night,
:23:21
and like the hunter that spawned you,
:23:23
join in the struggle
of life and death.
:23:27
- You were unable...
- The others did not understand.
:23:31
- You frightened them.
- They shunned you.
:23:34
Cursed you, called you vile names,
and you knew not why.
:23:38
Even now,
do you know why you are driven?
:23:41
Why you cannot relent, or repent,
or confess, or abstain?
:23:49
How could you know?
:23:51
There have been no other Klingons
to lead you to that knowledge.
:23:55
Yes.
:23:57
Yes, those feelings
are still a part of me.