Odo..traitor???

[RobertScorpio]

And when people say "Oh,well Worf is from a society that allows revenge murder, so Picard did the right thing" I can only laugh..either laws apply to everyone, or they don't. And certainly Worf got away with Murder...revenge or not.

Worf is a Klingon, though ... and he did not attempt to implement Klingon justice on a Federation starship or with one of its citizens. He attacked an armed foe prepared to meet him in battle.

Guilty, yes, in the technical sense ... but guilty with extreme extenuating circumstances, even according to Federation law, I would imagine.

[By the way ... did that murder take place within the bounds of Klingon space? I don't recall. If that were so, would not local law take precedence over Starfleet regulations when involving a pair of Klingon nationals, on a Klingon vessel, within Klingon borders?]

Any Naval officer who killed another person in a country where it was even accepted would still face military justice. Worf took off that badge not because he was quitting Starfleet, but so that they couldn't trace him...he planned to attack Durass and kill him for revenge, and he did so.

He should have face a trial, at the very lest. "Oh, but he got a reprimand in his record" and still got promoted a few years later...

Could you imagine the amount of astericks that would be in the Federation law books if they had to make not of certain laws that abide to others and dont, and specifically which races did or did not fall under a certain law?

One law for all or not at all...

Rob
Scorpio

 

[JM1776]

One law for all or not at all...

Which applies only when the purported crime takes place in a single jurisdiction, I would think.

I do agree that Worf submitted himself to Starfleet authority by taking a commission, and in that sense your take is pretty rock solid.

Clearly Picard delivered drumhead justice ... but decided, I imagine, on as light a punishment as he could deliver, because of the circumstances. Evidently Starfleet agreed. [Of course, having been a witness to the Sisko's Pale Moonlight debacle, we both know how much weight I give that, eh?]

It's certainly a debatable issue, but ... considering how well my candidly expressed opinion is being received of late, I'll just say you're making valid points and leave it at that. I don't have the energy to get into another one of these again.

 

[RobertScorpio]

One law for all or not at all...

Which applies only when the purported crime takes place in a single jurisdiction, I would think.

I do agree that Worf submitted himself to Starfleet authority by taking a commission, and in that sense your take is pretty rock solid.

Clearly Picard delivered drumhead justice ... but decided, I imagine, on as light a punishment as he could deliver, because of the circumstances. Evidently Starfleet agreed. [Of course, having been a witness to the Sisko's Pale Moonlight debacle, we both know how much weight I give that, eh?]

It's certainly a debatable issue, but ... considering how well my candidly expressed opinion is being received of late, I'll just say you're making valid points and leave it at that. I don't have the energy to get into another one of these again.

I wouldn't be so against what happened to Worf if, instead of some throw away episode at the end where he reprimands him, we get something like a pardon...or after Gowron took over, a pardon...but the way it stands it just looks like Picard used all his power to sweep it under the carpet...murder is murder...

But, it does create good food for thought..and that is TREK at its best..

Rob
scorpio