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Also a reference to “Man with No Name” a cowboy movie.

Guy has a container for trash and a pole for picking up trash. So he literally cleaned up the town.

Farside leans towards lightly silly at times and let’s the readers make up stories deeper behind the single frame.

It’s basically making a long elaborate story about a ghost and it simply fell in these rather regular people’s bean dip.

It leaves plenty to your imagination. You can decide what is going on. Will there be more haunting? Will the just make more bean dip and carry on? Why was only the wife pointing?

Have fun with your own imagination and decide what happens next or what led to this moment.

They sort of addressed this in Deep Space 9 when Quark tries to use Kira for a high paying customer. So there’s a little story line on preventing using unwilling characters in this way.

Totally agree that there should have been a mention of giving consent earlier on. The Jordi/Dr Leah Brahms storyline does touch on how there was an abuse. Perhaps Starfleet later on added the restrictions that are seen in Deep Space 9.