• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It certainly didn’t live up to Federation ideals.

    But then again Sisko should be a war criminal for using Biogenic weapons.

    If you want to see someone do the ethically correct thing 10/10, even in the face of Starfleet failing to, Jean Luc is your captain.

    I’ll bet Janeway and Sisko’s music playlists are a lot more fun though.

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      11 months ago

      The biogenic stuff is so funny for some reason… The absolute absurdity of Sisko bio nuking a planet to get one terrorist

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        In fairness, Picard is extremely upfront and honest that he has broken the Prime Directive in situations where he’s felt it would be callous not to.

        Separately, he also said that while rules are a good thing, rules cannot be universally absolute.

        Another thing he’s said is that Starfleet doesn’t want officers that will blindly follow orders, but rather to think about them seriously and weigh them in their minds.

        Janeway straight up said to another captain that she’s never broken the Prime Directive in her life, despite clearly doing it a bunch of times. She’s in denial.

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          That’s my only real issue with her is her comment to the Nova class captain about it.

          However, I give her the benefit of the doubt here because she’s clearly trying to encourage him that they don’t need to abandon their morality. If she tells him that she’s done it half a dozen times or so then he might be more likely to assume that’s the standard.

          Now we all know in hindsight that he’d already committed an atrocity and wanted assurance from Janeway that he wasn’t alone in his decisions to prioritize crew over other sapient beings, but she was simply seeing the younger version of herself in him and attempting to assure him that he doesn’t have to give up hope and sink to those depths.

          Voyager has more of a problem with character writing consistency than it does an issue with Janeway specifically, IMO.

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          In fairness, Picard is extremely upfront and honest that he has broken the Prime Directive in situations where he’s felt it would be callous not to.

          And he’s generally careful about trying to make sure that there is justification for breaking the Prime Directive before doing so.

          He was particularly put out about being involved in Klingon political successsion because it would be a violation of the Prime Directive, and he’d be wading into Klingon business, with no justification for his being so, other than that he was appointed.

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      11 months ago

      Needs of the many (2 people live) over needs of the few/one (cya tuvix)

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        11 months ago

        I mean, that logic was only ever applied by the Vulcans as a personal choice/sacrifice, not something to be enforced by the barrel of a… er… phaser.

        Spock sacrificed himself, it wasn’t done forcibly against his will. Kirk didn’t order the execution of one man so that others could live.

        I don’t think we should take a slogan as an absolute moral lesson, you can justify all kinds of evil with it.

        E.g. your organs could save dozens of lives. Would it be right to pin you down, kill you, and remove them, so that others can live? Surely one life lost is a worthy price to pay? The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, after all.

        Ethics are a lot more complex than a catchy slogan.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah but it wasn’t a random uninvolved person, it was essentially an industrial accident that needed unwinding and it just so happened the involved people were trapped in the gears of the machine. Somebody was getting smushed