Hide and Seek

"You know, you should have joined Starfleet."

"I tried. After Voyager. Starfleet shut me down because…"

"You were Borg?"

"Janeway went to bat for me, threatened to resign. But, I gave it up. Went full Ranger."

"I remember now. In a cloudy moment of extreme melancholy, my mother hung herself here in this place. And for all I've lived, all I've seen and done, I suppose this is the moment I've kept myself from remembering."

"Did you know that space is so vast, so infinite, it takes billions of years for that tiny pinprick of light to make that lonely journey from its star to our eyes? The brilliance you see in the night sky, Jean-Luc, that exquisite light, it's just an echo, really, of a star that has long since faded. Like me."