I also quit partway through, but probably because I had just read 2 of his other books and was pretty Mievilled out. I plan to start again at some point. Sometimes his characters are difficult to care about.

Letting someone die a natural death without artificially extending it and euthanasia (actively causing death) are very different.

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Yeah, they should have left the first actress and done a mentoring relationship, which still would have pissed off Dukat.

I don't know, Ch'Pok might see it as a good thing the judge is Vulcan. She's inclined to treat all emotion as irrational and culminating in violence, so she might be more open to his argument, and unable to see the nuance of a rage you can control.