Code Of Honor: What Do You Think?
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True. The difference, in Amok it was all McCoy, in heroic desperation and he did not reveal what he had done until the Enterprise left orbit. The TNG crew were all in the premeditation, the execution and then rubbed it in the Ligons' faces before warping away with the vaccine in impunity, all while congratulating themselves about how highly evolved and moral they are.
But yeah, T'Lar must have been a Vulcan version of pissed when she learned about Spock.
Racist? I don't know? For greater minds than mine. Not a very good episode, to be sure. Though I think it gets greatly glossed over that Picard is interfering in the internal workings of the planet and plays kingmaker. Which had to be a gross violation of the Prime Directive. On the level of Ron Tracy propping up the Kohms in "The Omega Glory".
Prime Directive doesn't apply.
They have warp, and they have formal communications with the Federation Council that allows for free trade and humanitarian aid. If Picard is an ass, they can go over his his head and tattle to his bosses on Earth.
If there wasn't a Federation Ambassador stationed there. Picard should have considered leaving someone behind for 6 months to set up an Embassy and perform light duties as Ambassador, since they will want even more of this magic medicine eventually, because the frontier is just a mess of unusual diseases and pustules blighting good fortune turned sour.
Tasha, maybe?
I don't know. At the time Africa still had people sticking to old cultural traditions and still had tribes. If they portrayed it without the Tasha fixation it may be seen as the noble savage trope anyway. They could have gone the Wakanda route they still had their old ways mixed with advanced technology. Come to think on it why was BP more accepted? Because he did not to kidnap a white woman?
The Admiral in “Redemption II”, seemed to frown on playing kingmaker’s under the “non-interference” directive.
Two sovereign states can have a private little war.
Three sovereign states is a free for all.
To be fair, Crusher did say Yareena died and was revived. This has happened countless times in STAR TREK, so I can't call it fraud.
And, oddly, that old trope of "suspenseful death/surprise revival" was done far better here in "Code of Honor" than the standby get-out-of-drama-free trope used by Nomad when "reconstructing" Scotty in TOS's "The Changeling", or McCoy or whoever in the "Shore Leave" episode, etc, etc. "Code of Honor" is by no means great, but it's not a beat-for-beat rip-off of "The Naked Now" (despite a couple riffs from "Amok Time" but it was trying to be its own thing and not a self-aware remake of it, and they put some actual tangible structure and effort into Yareena's revival for the denouement - not "give me the blueprints and I will rebuild her".
Picard also interferes in the internal workings in the also-derided "Justice". At least "Code of Honor" is mangling a potentially good plot. "Justice" is just idle skin-clad oily fantasy with "the prime directive" shoved in toward the end and with as much tact as getting the crew onto the planet to canoodle around.
recently a friend of mine confused Justice with Code and said Beverly knocked Wesley out in order to satisfy the aliens' kill law and save him at the same time.
I think it would be a great episode. My friend is a genius.
I think it would be a great episode. My friend is a genius.
If the matriarch was declared dead, legally she should have lost all legal rights to own any thing, and thousands of petty inheritances should have kicked in, that no one would have been eager to reverse.
A backwards enough culture may have doubted if she still have had a soul, or declared that she was a ghoul from hell pretending to be Yarena and lop her head off, alternatively a forwards enough culture may have suspected that she was a clone or a fembot and pulled her heart out of her chest looking for wires.
A backwards enough culture may have doubted if she still have had a soul, or declared that she was a ghoul from hell pretending to be Yarena and lop her head off, alternatively a forwards enough culture may have suspected that she was a clone or a fembot and pulled her heart out of her chest looking for wires.
So, Picard likely put them on a path to a bloody civil war. Take that Prime Directive!
In Shades of Gray, Riker had an infection that was cured or aggravated by memories with a specific emotional resonance... The episode should have been called "Shades of Riker".
The point I was leaning into was "Would Riker's memories from Code of Honor have been negative enough to have quickly defeated this alien virus?
I prefer a clip show over a musical.
Stargate SG1 had two fantastic clip show shows.
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Those were meaningful and - for the most part - included developments which still mattered far ahead into the series; plus, we witnessed a grey alien gesture for a meddling manipulator to sit his butt down. I'll take Sub Rosa and Code of Honor over Shades of Gray any day of the week.
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