#Guilt Is a Useful Tool (@EssentialTrek 'Voyager' tells us), but it's only a PART of this Weird Feeling i Feel | #Guilty #Guiltless #SurvivorsGuilt #Guiltlessly

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In a STAR TREK: VOYAGER episode, ...

... the USS Voyager travels through 'a memory-broadcast-field' that plagues its crew with the experience of having been soldiers who aided-and-abetted the slaughter of an innocent colony (infecting each of them with the memories of the ancient military, as if the crew-members had actually been there).

When they discover the memory-device–confirming that 'they had not actually been "forced to participate, followed by having their memories wiped clean"'–Captain Janeway decides to leave the device intact (even repairing its 300 years of natural wear-&-tear), because she sees that the ancient civilization had left it to teach passers-by not to make the same mistakes in the future.

Later on, Neelix the Talaxian asks Annika Hansen (the former-Borg "7-of-9") how she deals with the guilt of 'knowing that you destroyed countless lives' (as she did back when she was a Borg; though she then totally renounced The Borg Collective and began to serve as a member of Voyager's crew as if she had graduated from Starfleet Academy & gone into Starfleet like any other officer).

'Seven' replies that the guilt is a useful tool, in 'coloring' the memories in such a way that she is thus better able to avoid making the same mistakes in the future (the way you 'know you've got to do something different when things start going the wrong way').

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The word |Guilt| is built on “to Pay for, Debt” above the bedrock of "Crime, Sin, |Moral |Defect, Failure of Duty."

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I've got this weird feeling about 'my situation'—'Guilt' might be part of it, but I might also identify it as Sadness, Regret, Remorse, Anger (in a Snarky/Bratty way), Impatience, Fear ... I'm too Afraid to  even mention it!