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Yetzer Ha Tov, Yetzer Ha Ra by ToasterBonanza
Fandoms: Star Trek - Various Authors, Star Trek
10 Mar 2021
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Summary
Story 7 in "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"
The USS Maryam is celebrating the High Holidays! Anyone and everyone is invited, even those who are under harsh scrutiny but not yet arrested!
But Minjaral is the only one enjoying himself. His three friends are miserable, not just for the suspicions around them but also for their personal losses. Vudic's pon farr is rising to the surface, Doh'Val is still clinging to the one thread left of his old life, and Krax thinks he shouldn't have come at all. For the first time since The Breakup, they do something they thought they'd never do again: they talk to each other.
However, they must be careful. They are being watched. And they must decide between their morality and their animal instincts.
(Note: Jewish philosopher Maimonides elabroated on the rabbinic understanding of the yetzer ha tov (good impulse) and the yetzer ha ra (evil impulse) as being associated with constructs within ourselves. The yetzer ha tov was derived from moral and rational self. The yetzer ha ra was derived from wanting to satisfy our basic needs as animals)
Series
- Part 7 of Piper at The Gates of Dawn