In a message dated 05/15/2001 5:23:01 PM Central Daylight Time, Sha_Ka_Ree@compuserve.com writes:

Possible. Havant tells Blake he's disturbed when he's messing with his mind. If they defined criminal beahviour as evidence for mental illness they probably could 'treat' it without the persons consent or without a trial. We have compulsory treatment orders for mental illness even here and now.

In many totalitarian regimes (like the Soviet Union), dissidence was and is considered mental illness, and treated as such, often very heavily, with the rationale that if someone isn't happy with the way things are, there must be something wrong with them.

It's possible, even likely, that the Federation would do the same.

Tiger M