You still wanted Starfleet to accept you.
Why?
When I was five or six,
I remember a Starfleet crew visited.
They were all so different from one another.
So many crew members from so many planets.
It was beautiful.
I thought if all those people from all those worlds
can work together side-by-side,
maybe I could too.
Maybe I could be a part of something bigger than myself.
Starfleet is not a perfect organization,
but it strives to be, and I believe it could be.