Gaslighting effect? [He can guess at what that means through context, but why waste an opportunity to learn a term that doesn't show up that often on twenty-third century spaceships?] You sound as though you have given this thorough consideration. Have you come to accept this existential threat gradually, or were you unsurprised to find that there is a complex web of interconnected universes? I understand that multiverse theories were relatively new in your time, but I would guess that you were familiar with the possibilities before coming here.