“Having a fast car and plenty of gas is of no use if you don’t know where you want to go.” —A Fortune Cookie probably

The fact that you actually know what you want out of life is actually a huge accomplishment.

I also have to ask: Why isn't the "delta" in the Delta Green logo... green?

It worked for TimeCop. Every covert time travel operation should be done by people wearing “TIME ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION” uniforms!

M'Benga takes the risk because he sees that healing his trauma isn't about revenge or justice, it is about not letting those events make him into something he hates. He grows as a character instead of degrading by doing something he knows is wrong. To mix my sci-fi: "Star Trek is built on hope."

Kirk does this all the time. When he offers that hand of friendship there's always a chance it will be a mistake, but he does it anyway, because if he doesn't he isn't being the person he wants to be.

That kind of ambiguous conclusion where we can't be sure the hero made the right call (and neither can the hero) is interesting, and it also represents the very Star Trek idea that our heroes are willing to take risks to get the best moral outcome. They bet on good.

But he has to choose not to commit murder. "I want to end you. Badly. But if I do, we'll never know. You're a diplomat. Maybe you'll stop a war. Maybe you'll kill again. I can't know. But I'll risk it. Because there's so much to gain if it works. For both of us."

The writing intent here seems to be to humanize M'Benga. But my contention is that he doesn't have to kill to show the weakness he's trying to overcome. The weakness is that he wants to murder someone. He's a doctor who wants to murder someone. That's enough.

In contrast, a character beat goes wrong in M'Benga's story. He recognizes a Klingon diplomat aboard the Enterprise is actually a war criminal. M'Benga knows he can't prove it, but he wants justice badly. So in a moment when no one would know, he murders the Klingon.

This is a great character beat, because we can see this moment in Kirk's actions later in his career. In his future we see him stopping short of striking that final blow, and extending the hand of friendship to an enemy. We are being shown here that mercy is not weakness, it is growth.

One is a moment where Kirk is pressed hard and pulls out a win against an enemy ship, blows them to smithereens. He is initially jubilant, but then realizes there might have been a way to not kill them. He's struck and ashamed at his joy at having "won."

The best way to demonstrate these values is through the actions of our characters, and there are two examples in the recent episodes I think are informative (good and bad). (Some Spoilers Ahead)

“What’s your favorite movie or movies that was a box office flop?”

Josie and the Pussycats
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Clue
Hudson Hawk
Big Trouble in Little China