Chapter 31 - The Power of an Augment's Blood (Star Trek: Into Darkness) (Patreon)

Hi friends, I'm sure the excerpt I included below clues you into what bit of text this post refers to and how it ties into the chapter.  I originally had the entire section where Dax is thinking about this copied and pasted, but Patreon automatically popped something up saying it might violate guidelines and would be reviewed.  I really didn't want to risk that (even though I felt I hadn't violated shit), so I put in a smaller bit of that scene.

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She had her suspicions and if even half of what she suspected was true, then Gothic’s blood could be gram for gram thousands of times more valuable than liquid latinum. And since his blood was constantly replenished, it would be an endless source of wealth. People would kill, had killed, for far, far less. Gothic’s other lovers had noticed the effects too, of course, how couldn’t they? But they weren’t scientists like her and didn’t realize the full implications.