Dr. Rosalind Lear

*Sighs, recalling this passage while rereading Captain Kirk's logs about her father*

but she doubted it.

These thoughts and many others like them kept her awake for a long time before she was finally able to slip into slumber. She would need it so she could teach classes the next day.*

This was another result of her secret. She would have to always be alone because she would have to reveal her true identity to a husband or wife and she didn't want to risk exposure. So, from her perspective, she was doomed to be lonely and love-deprived forever. Maybe that would change someday, -->

act according to the persona she had adopted so long ago. She would never be free to be Kali; she would always have to pretend to be Rosalind. At least, as far as she knew, she would.

Exhausted from her crying and the day's teaching, she slid down in the bed and rested her head on her pillow. -->

Was she really Kali Noonien Singh? Or was she really Rosalind Lear? Or was she nobody, worthless, nameless? She didn't know, and she never had known, and as far as she knew, she would never know. That was the worst part of her secret...She could never be truly herself as she had to always -->

on her table. She buried her face in her hands and began to weep bitterly, just as she had done every time she had read Moby Dick over the past century. Feeling abandoned and alone, with no identity she could proudly claim as truly her own, had been a festering wound for all that time. -->

thinking of was her own father, Khan Noonien Singh. He could have used the starship he had commandeered to search for her if he had truly loved her, but instead he chose to pursue Admiral James T. Kirk and seek vengeance on him. She slammed the book shut angrily with tears in her eyes and set it -->

*As she read the words on the page, written so long ago, she couldn't help but think of a man who had become so delusional as to think of himself as another Captain Ahab pursuing another White Whale...a pursuit that resulted in his own seeming death, just like in the book. The man she was -->

This is a lesson that can be exemplified in the life of Khan Singh.

To understand Khan Noonien Singh, one must understand Moby Dick.

*His headless body slumped onto the ground.*

*He was too afraid of her to enjoy it much. He had to admit, she still a lovely smile despite her scars and all the blood on her face and the scary quality of it, but she was still Callie O'Grady, once 31's most ruthless assassin, now turned against them.*

You're welcome...I...I'm trying...

Tr-Travis...Austin Travis...

I swear to you I won't ever bother you again...I can't stop Zweller...but I can convince him there's been a...change in plan...and maybe he'll let your wife go...I'll even tell you one admiral who didn't make it here even though he should've been here...

Angel...please...I appeal to whatever's left of Leeta Tigan in you to spare me...I don't want to die...not like this...

I thought it would break whatever link you still have to your old life! I...I didn't listen to Vasily...He said that it would backfire...He was right...Please spare me...I'll do anything you want...

VASILY!!!

*He shrieked in horror when he saw the burned and bloody corpse of his friend. He turned his fear-filled eyes to her, realizing he couldn't fight her since his wrists had been broken in his fall.*

You wouldn't kill an injured man...would you...Angel...?

*Kulkarno landed on his front and was immediately knocked unconscious when he hit his head on the floor, his wrists broken from a hasty but failed attempt to break his fall.*

Exactly, but I guess we'll see what the others vote and of course what Control decides.

I don't have any more ideas, although I still think killing her wife then putting her through the Process again is the best way.

On the contrary, Admiral, it would break her will.

any resistance from her. She would be too broken to resist.

According to O'Grady's file, when she was put through the Process the first time, it was noted that her original personality yearned for someone special to her, for that special someone to come and rescue her from us...her wife. If we eliminate her wife in front of her, it would be the end of -->

Oh, that's not the only thing I had in mind for her. Before putting her through the Process again, we should eliminate any reason she might have to resist us and leave our service...and do it in front of her.

*Kulkarno was next.*

I think we should put her through more intense indoctrination to eliminate her wild card tendencies. We can't just toss away a woman of her skill; she is much too valuable to us.