cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36192189
icymi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Section_31 is a thing which (unfortunately) exists
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My headcanon of Sec31, is that the Federation hasn't figured out what to do about sociopaths yet so they do what any government does to its sociopaths: tell them they're the good guys and make them spies. Except the Federation is actually evolved beyond that so they just make Sec31 teams chase each other, each team thinking it is chasing some existential threat when really its just another team of sec31 chasing some threat, thinking they are being pursued by the enemy
Didn't they mention some mental cure in Dagger of the Mind? (Sorry, it's been a long time since I've seen TOS.)
You could be right! That's why it's headcanon, I don't have to check against actual canon
Also, presumably/hopefully, all of this is happening safe inside a holodeck.