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I confuse instinct for desire - isn't bite also touch?

In which a woman finds her way back to the solar system of her birth and, in the meantime, experiences little to no character development. Or, also, in which a little bit of communication could have gone a long way toward avoiding pulling out a shovel once we've hit rock bottom.

James Tiberius Kirk's older sister is a hot mess with no object permanence and can't stop self-sabotaging long enough to figure out that she can, in fact, have exactly what she wants. A conglomerate of unresolved childhood trauma, crippling mental health issues, and a god-complex leave her struggling to function when she has to live in a society after a lifetime of being a feral asshole.