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How many have paid the price for your impatience? How many have died? How much damage have you done, and what is yet to come?
— Lieutenant Saavik · Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker presses a hard accusation through escalating questions about the cost of someone's impatience: the price already paid, the lives lost, the damage done. The final question looks ahead with dread, suggesting the harm may not be over. The tone is grave and reproachful.
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