On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:52:23 -0500 "Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net writes:
Thanks to all for the replies. However, if you don't know you've been mind-wiped until after the mind-wipe fails, you might present a vivid counter-example to others, but YOU aren't suffering.
Besides the control issue - and I think the Federation was always willing during S1 to sacrifice just about anyone and anything for expediency an control. So, it's not a big issue to them to sacrifice three children to make a convincing case against Blake. In the same way, if they could crush opposition more effectively by making Blake a happy citizen, that's what they would (and did) do.
OTOH, if we insist on a revenge motive, the person in charge of Blake's case may have been the kind to get a sick pleasure out of what was done to him. Maybe this person would occasionally stop by and chat, enjoying how the brainwashed Blake was so impressed that a high ranking, government official could be so friendly and egalitarian, asking questions about his family and how he was doing, etc. Making Blake into a trusting, subserviant, timid, tow the line citizen _was_ the revenge.
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