I didn't know, until reading this, that the episode aired on the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That takes planning and shows commitment to making a statement on the part of the authors and the show, and I'm impressed.

You saw so much more in the episode than I saw in it--I feel so enriched by having been taken through it slowly by you. Thank you.

What's left mattering is how much the scientist wanted it to work. What's left mattering is what Neelix was able to say. There's nothing else to do but go on living with what you've done and what's been done to you. I don't think of that as a very Trek-y moral, but I do think it's true. --I really *love* this, and I think you're right.