No darker than "The Mark of Gideon." As with so many things, TOS got there first.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x06 - "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach"
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And often did it better. And no, "The Mark of Gideon" was not one of those times when TOS did it better.
Agreed. "Gideon" is a crap-fest episode, but it did have an intriguing premise. It and "Half a Life" have common elements with Logan's Run and other "overpopulation sci-fi" entries.
later. TVH I think.
Then there is A Taste of Armegeddon.
Told to stay away, they didn't. Prime directive applies because there not a part of the federation, though they do know of alien cultures. But Kirk and crew intervene anyways, pretty much breaking the PD.
Told to stay away, they didn't. Prime directive applies because there not a part of the federation, though they do know of alien cultures. But Kirk and crew intervene anyways, pretty much breaking the PD.
In that case, the overriding factor was the safety of passing starships, which were being lost in the area because of the war and because there was no nearby port in the star cluster. The Prime Directive was not broken, because the Enterprise was ordered by Starfleet and the Federation to establish a treaty port. Clearly, there were situations when the Prime Directive could be overridden, and this one of those.
A title card at the start of TWOK.
was it there on the theatrical release? Asking as Khan seems to think they’re in the 22nd century…
I recall it was; there's a music cue accompanying the title card.
But in any case, you are correct that TVH mentions it in dialog, which I'm sure is the first time that happened, and it's mentioned multiple times.
Really good episode and I enjoyed that.. Shame you need a kid to stop your city falling into lava but them's the breaks.. /s
You'd think with all their razzle dazzle techno magic they could have knocked up a solution to the problem as some kind of stop gap, but yeah it is what it is.
Great episode
8/10
You'd think with all their razzle dazzle techno magic they could have knocked up a solution to the problem as some kind of stop gap, but yeah it is what it is.
Great episode
8/10
It is said tthey tried to find alternatives but none worked. The tech is way more advanced than what they or or the Fed seem to have.
Although I do like the idea from one of the novels that the PD isn't more rigid, its that captains are more rigorous in its applications.
I figured that the tech is a moral trap.
The ancient creators, figured out how to make it only work with children, and how to trick future generations into thinking that it can only work with children, since if you could throw the homeless, pedos or political prisoners in there, no one would care or consider it a sacrifice if cancer patients can donate their last three months, and thus lose their souls for being unfeeling bastards.
The ancient creators, figured out how to make it only work with children, and how to trick future generations into thinking that it can only work with children, since if you could throw the homeless, pedos or political prisoners in there, no one would care or consider it a sacrifice if cancer patients can donate their last three months, and thus lose their souls for being unfeeling bastards.
It's like they took all the flux lines of suffering and concentrated them on a single individual, because eliminating them and their effects on people altogether was not possible.
That makes me wonder now if their tech was theirs to begin with, reverse engineered from others, or stolen
Considering their civ is floating atop hell, it can't be a natural growth.
There had to have been some apocalyptic cataclysm in the past with the current civ living atop the technological ruin/safety net their predecessors managed to work out. The lives of billions for the life of 1.
A common refrain, both in Trek and human history.
