What is it like to feel pain?
It is like ... when you see that people have no hope of happiness ...
you feel great despair ... your heart is heavy because you know you
can do nothing ... pain is like that.
-- Hodin and Odona of Gideon, "The Mark of Gideon," stardate 5423.4.
The people of Gideon have always believed that life is sacred.
That the love of life is the greatest gift .. we are incapable
of destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we
love so deeply -- life in every form from fetus to developed being....