We Have Gathered Here Today To Pay Final Respects To Our Honored Dead.

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We have gathered here today to pay final respects to our honored dead.
And yet it should be noted in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes
place in the shadow of a new light, the sunrise of a new world, a world
that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish. He did
not feel this sacrifice a vain or empty one, and we will not debate his
profound wisdom at these proceedings. Of my friend I can only say this,
of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most -
human.
-- Kirk, "The Wrath of Khan," stardate 8130.3.

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