What are you gonna do? Force me to experience 20 years of imprisonment and watching my best friend die and put in so deeply in my brain that the memories can’t be erased by any known medical technology, then tell me to get back to work in my menial starfleet job with an insufferable wife and child who will probably never understand my pain and will grow increasingly distant? Haha that would be incredibly fucked up, wouldn’t it.
Next episode: completely forgets about the incredibly traumatic, horrifying incident and never mentions it again and is never plagued by even a hint of post-traumatic stress.
What are you gonna do? Force me to experience 20 years of imprisonment and watching my best friend die and put in so deeply in my brain that the memories can’t be erased by any known medical technology, then tell me to get back to work in my menial starfleet job with an insufferable wife and child who will probably never understand my pain and will grow increasingly distant? Haha that would be incredibly fucked up, wouldn’t it.
Next episode: completely forgets about the incredibly traumatic, horrifying incident and never mentions it again and is never plagued by even a hint of post-traumatic stress.
To be fair, he acts as if plagued by some horrifying post-traumatic stress on every episode, before or after this, so I didn’t expect a change.
Oh I’ll just put this trauma over here with the rest of the traumas.
It’s fine, the plot of the next (and all subsequent) episodes forgot about that for him.