I should not be surprised to find themes of the class apparent in an episode of Star Trek, and I am not. I seem to see the themes everywhere and in everything these days. The 20 minute lifetime is experienced by Captain Picard when he realizes that he had experiences an entire lifetime in a span of time in which he had only been out for 25 minutes. In his 25 minute lifetime his daughter tells him: "you know about it father. You've already seen it." This reminds me of the lines in Eliot that the end of our exploring shall be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. The theme of dolce domum is also evident in that Picard has trouble coming to terms with the fact that he is home. He does not seem to know the place for the first time, yet.
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