Nathan DeGroff
Log 3

	I decided to get more insight into the topic that I wrote about for my
webpage last night, so I went to see Star Trek, First Contact again.  I paid
close attention to the slow progression of Captain Picard's obsession with
killing the Borg.  
	
	I had missed the part in the movie where Picard quotes Moby-Dick. 
After having been compared to Ahab, quotes the passage where Ahab is standing
on the top of the whale and that if his body was a cannon, that he would have
shot his heart upon it.  Picard finally realizes his obsession and then agrees
to give up and destroy his own ship.  

	What was the most interesting part about the movie was that, in the
end, he didn't have to destroy his own ship and the Borg were eliminated.  When
Picard finally gave up and decided to withdraw, circumstances led for his
victory.  It causes me to wonder, if Ahab was real and used Picard's wisdom of
giving up, would he have won in the end?  Perhaps it is true to life; when we
see that circumstances are tough and what we do only makes it worse, giving up
might be our only victory.

Nate			-*-