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[cooleddie74]

Nerd.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Nerd.

Nerd ergo sum

 

[cooleddie74]

I 100 what you did there.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I'm totally okay with them debating whether interference is acceptable when they're dealing with things like authoritarian cultures. Kirk decided the Roman planet was evolving fine so it was none of their business, the Nazi planet and Gangster planet had been interfered with and needed some repair, and the Purge planet was stuck with an evil computer and needed a bit of rebooting.

But when it's an extinction event, that's just a game over for the planet. You can't mess them up worse than their complete annihilation will, any action you take to save them will be a better outcome than that.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Not agreeing with letting a planet die out, but being aware that your actions affect the multiverse and time and countless worlds in your reality can give you a splitting headache.

Sure, for that planet it's better to interfere than allow annihilation, but then you're plagued wondering if the people you saved today will advance to be a superpower that will cause countless suffering/annihilate your grandchildren.

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (Matthew 6:34 KJV)

 

[Nerys Myk]

Sure, for that planet it's better to interfere than allow annihilation, but then you're plagued wondering if the people you saved today will advance to be a superpower that will cause countless suffering/annihilate your grandchildren.

That way lies madness. You saved lives today. I'm not even sure why you'd be worried about them becoming a superpower. How does that come up in the equation?

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

That's just life. Firemen and doctors don't worry about pulling future dictators out of burning buildings, or giving future serial killers life-saving surgery.

 

[cooleddie74]

We stopped the totalitarian warmongers of 1940s Japan and ran the risk of 1980s democratic Japan being the world's most dynamic and advanced consumer economy and owning half of Manhattan. I don't see it as that big a quandary.

 

[Nerys Myk]

"Show of hands who has plans to be a despotic leader in the next century or two? Those of you who raised your hands step to the rear. The rest come with me on the transport.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yes, it's crazy. I agree. And a good explanation for an AWOL captain episode plot.

 

[fireproof78]

That way lies madness. You saved lives today. I'm not even sure why you'd be worried about them becoming a superpower. How does that come up in the equation?

That's how Janeway argued it.

There's one way then the Janeway.