First Officer Spock's Personal Log

Stardate: Unknown

I have to admit I have been experiencing a slight unease since the destruction of the captain's cloud creature.

So many of the creatures we have encountered while aboard the Enterprise have presented a moral quandary: should a creature that has the potential to end humanoid life, whether by accident or design, be allowed to live?

The answer is almost always no. And the captain said that he could feel the evil from the creature... but it attempted to feed on me as well, and I experienced no emotions from it directly that could be considered negative.

Thought I believe the choice to destroy the cloud creature was the correct one, I wonder how many times humanoids have destroyed things that they did not understand instead of attempting to accommodate them.

Perhaps I am putting too much thought into this.