If you were the Captain of an Enterprise
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Now I get it, sry. No I don't care for her. I absolutely think she would make the worst president. And all her show does is push the fact that she has money down American's throats. She can wish and dream all she wants, she is no where near a regular American. She doesn't know what it means to be an everyday american. Most people in her position don't face the same problems as everyday Ameicans. The tea baggers would probably have a better image in the eyes of alot of people if they kicked her off.
This is only fun if you ignore the prime directive, which was never clearly defined anyway and always contradicted.
Vaporize every US millitary base outside the US except the ones in Japan and South Korea, take the carrier groups that are outside US waters out in the same strike, likewise remove the capacity of any country to project war outside its own boders.
Beam Kim Jong Il, Mubarak, Blair, Bush, and some other select thugs into space, or the brig, depending on my mood.
Beam almost every nuclear warhead off the planet.
Give them the cures for AIDS, Cancer and whatever other diseases I can and beam anyone who tries to patent them into space.
Give them cold fusion or whatever other power source we have that they could use without killing themselves, in order to end the dependency on fossil fuels.
Vaporize every US millitary base outside the US except the ones in Japan and South Korea, take the carrier groups that are outside US waters out in the same strike, likewise remove the capacity of any country to project war outside its own boders.
Beam Kim Jong Il, Mubarak, Blair, Bush, and some other select thugs into space, or the brig, depending on my mood.
Beam almost every nuclear warhead off the planet.
Give them the cures for AIDS, Cancer and whatever other diseases I can and beam anyone who tries to patent them into space.
Give them cold fusion or whatever other power source we have that they could use without killing themselves, in order to end the dependency on fossil fuels.
That's a tough question. It really boils down to your own personal moral values if the prime directive is not in play...
I'd love to help. But that would mean altering the future, and therefore my present. Any changes would result in a paradox.
Therefore the only logical solution is to not interfere and try to get back to my time.
I'd love to help. But that would mean altering the future, and therefore my present. Any changes would result in a paradox.
Therefore the only logical solution is to not interfere and try to get back to my time.
Solving people's problems for them only teaches them not to solve those problems themselves. Still, solving global plague, hunger, pollution and terror is okay by me. Free them to solve the next batch of problems like violence, education, compassion, and purpose. Magically having the Enterprise in orbit would be just that great.
I think the problems are actually:
a) not having invented the solutions to the first set of problems themselves, would they be proportionately hindered in solving the second...so that it would take as long or longer to solve the second set as it would have taken them to solve both without the gift of the Enterprise.
and
b) knowing the specific technology can be developed, they specifically set out to do so themselves, bypassing social growth that would have occurred normally. This having the basic effect of putting nukes in the hands of Genghis Khan. Eventually the insufficiently mature humans will match the abilities of the ship in orbit and then what? Will they go back to warring with one another? Hopefully the time of forced peace and intense prosperity they'd had will have gotten them used to a better way of being, but it's up in the air...I guess it depends on how they handled the second batch of problems and how much they resented not being equal with the ship in orbit in solving the first.
I think the problems are actually:
a) not having invented the solutions to the first set of problems themselves, would they be proportionately hindered in solving the second...so that it would take as long or longer to solve the second set as it would have taken them to solve both without the gift of the Enterprise.
and
b) knowing the specific technology can be developed, they specifically set out to do so themselves, bypassing social growth that would have occurred normally. This having the basic effect of putting nukes in the hands of Genghis Khan. Eventually the insufficiently mature humans will match the abilities of the ship in orbit and then what? Will they go back to warring with one another? Hopefully the time of forced peace and intense prosperity they'd had will have gotten them used to a better way of being, but it's up in the air...I guess it depends on how they handled the second batch of problems and how much they resented not being equal with the ship in orbit in solving the first.
Especially if there is an anticipation of further external solutions to the problems confronting them. If instead there is a prideful mentality of "Thank you, we'll take it from here." Fantastic, that is the equivalent of helping someone by pushing their car out a ditch, then watching them drive down the road.
Morals eh? Hmmm, novel thought.
I'd message every major country that I had torpedo lock on every capitol city, and tell them if they didn't submit there would be instantaneous destruction. And when one country decided it thought I was bluffing or they thought they had anything to fight me with, that country would be made an example of.
Just call me Gul, thanks.
I'd message every major country that I had torpedo lock on every capitol city, and tell them if they didn't submit there would be instantaneous destruction. And when one country decided it thought I was bluffing or they thought they had anything to fight me with, that country would be made an example of.
Just call me Gul, thanks.
What do you think would be the ramifications if instead of announcing yourself as human and a friend, you put on a Balok mask and said something more neutral? "Greetings, all. So, uh, how about that Relativity, huh? Isn't that something else? Yeah, so, um...till next time - ta!". It would turn everything upside down, but would that unite us in a good way, bad way, no way, or destroy us?
Would depend on whether you made your "Balok" announcement while sitting on the Oprah Show.
I wouldn't do anything. The ramifications of giving the world higher technology could possibly cause the death of mankind. What ever I do could change the future for the worse. (Basically the butterfly affect, stepping on a butterfly changes the future in some great way)
The best thing to do is to go on that 5 year mission or so and find a planet to settle down on.
With any luck the human race will lurch along on its merry way into the future.
The best thing to do is to go on that 5 year mission or so and find a planet to settle down on.
With any luck the human race will lurch along on its merry way into the future.
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