“My point is that there is always hope, depending on where you place your hope.”
I think where you place ~ellipses~ has an even bigger impact on detente.
It could be “hope” or it could be so much snake oil.
We will see in the future.
Kirk: I have never trusted Klingons, and never will. I have never been able to forgive them for the murder of my boy. Spock says this could be an historic moment, and I'd like to believe him, but how on earth can history get past people like me?
[later scene]
Spock: Is it possible....that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible, that we have outlived our usefulness? Would that constitute a "joke"?