There are things television teaches you if you’re really watching. You learn from Mike Ehrmantraut in Breaking Bad that there are no half measures . You learn from Burgess Meredith in The Twilight Zone that all the time in the world doesn’t matter if your glasses are broken and the people are gone . And you learn from Captain Kirk — or rather, two Captain Kirks — that a leader split in half is no leader at all.

(Speaking of Kirk, his namesake here at MMB wrote his story the same day I wrote mine , we didn’t talk about this until after each was done. We’re not done talking about this and won’t be until the Mavericks actually fire Nico.)

That’s the episode I keep thinking about. “The Enemy Within,” from the original Star Trek. A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two beings:

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