William Shatner may have saved me last night

I think James T. Kirk (as played by William Shatner) saved me last night.

I had read a story that got me thinking about my rapist, and as I sometimes do, I got very, very angry at him.

We're talking "I wish I could bring you back to life so I could kill you painfully" kind of angry.

And then, out of the blue, I remembered a scene from the original Star Trek where Capt. Kirk faces off against a group who have modeled their society on ancient Greece, but they also have the ability to move objects and control people with their minds. After he defeats them, one of their victims holds a knife to the leader's throat, aching for some payback for the abuse he had suffered at their hands, and Kirk says, "Do you want to be like him?"

I could have sworn it was like the memory was using this line to talk to me.

Because I answered mentally, saying "God help me, no. I don't want to be like him."

And my anger cooled.

Which allowed me to keep going with my day.

Pretty strange and yet kinda cool, no?