SLASHER Monkhouse wrote:
Pakistan are all out without saving the follow-on!
Sorry, er... Leylan...
I see him as the embodiment of the line about "for evil to triumph, it is necessary only for good men to do nothing" (sorry, haven't got precise wording to hand), which is essential to the Federation.
He is not the embodiment of the line. That is a lie. But the line itself is true.
My key scene: LEYLAN: And the prisoners? DAINER: We've killed six. LEYLAN: Six? DAINER: Seven. In the course of quelling a riot and protecting the ship, sir. LEYLAN: Very well. Carry on. DAINER: Thank you, sir. RAIKER: I can get them out of there, sir.
On the tape I have, Leylan looks slightly pained about the deaths (and Dainer appears to think he has to justify them),
Leylan is putting on an act.
though he goes along
with it, accepting the justification.
OF COURSE HE DOES. IT'S AN ACT.
That makes sense; at least, it
will sound OK in the report.
TRUE.
But Raiker is watching him carefully,
smiles when he sees Leylan's initial reaction, and then makes his offer.
TRUE.
My conclusion is that it's Leylan's brief wince that gives him the idea;
if *Leylan* is squeamish about killing prisoners,
HE ISN'T SQUEAMISH ABOUT ANYTHING. HE JUST DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY.
how much more so
Blake...
BOLLOCKS.
As Ellynne implies, Leylan probably knows the difference between right and wrong,
HE DOESN'T.
but he's long since lost the will, if he ever had one, to do
anything about it.
HE DOESN'T WANT TO, RAIKER IS WORKING FOR HIM.
Blake, since his recapture, is bursting with the
will to do something about it.
TRUE.
This also ties in with Steve R's remarks about most people not going out of their way to put themselves in danger. Leylan wouldn't exactly be in danger, or not immediately, if he asserted himself.
HE IS ASSERTING HIMSELF THROUGH RAIKER.
But it would be
standing up to be counted, and it's pretty much engrained in Federation society that no one stands up to be counted.
TRUE.
(The Kommissar on Horizon:
"So you're a Resister. Some malfunction of the genes, I suppose. It throws up a Resister about every hundred thousand.") The Federation
depends on apathy far more than it does on evil.
TRUE.
THIS LYST IS HIGHLY DANGEROUS. PLEASE LEAVE IT.
Jenny
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