Julian's smile is slight, self-depricating. "I know. You're rather preaching to the choir on that front."
But Julian's enhancements are what got him his Starfleet career, he has to think--he most likely wouldn't be here if it weren't for them. He'd be on Earth, doing...something with his life, he has no idea what. But the person he would have become is long gone. Julian took his place years ago.
And he's also accepted that because of it, there are some people who are uncomfortable with the simple fact that he's not natural. He'd been the same way, before he could live embracing that reality. Not exactly healthy.
"Perhaps in the future, it won't be." He can hope, anyway. Not necessarily for himself, because he's content with his life--as it is in the future, he can be wholly himself and not face censure for it. Generally. Right now, though, that's just simply not the case.
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But Julian's enhancements are what got him his Starfleet career, he has to think--he most likely wouldn't be here if it weren't for them. He'd be on Earth, doing...something with his life, he has no idea what. But the person he would have become is long gone. Julian took his place years ago.
And he's also accepted that because of it, there are some people who are uncomfortable with the simple fact that he's not natural. He'd been the same way, before he could live embracing that reality. Not exactly healthy.
"Perhaps in the future, it won't be." He can hope, anyway. Not necessarily for himself, because he's content with his life--as it is in the future, he can be wholly himself and not face censure for it. Generally. Right now, though, that's just simply not the case.