Was the scientist justified killing the Crystal? S5E4

[Takeru]

Because you believe the sperm whale is evil or, alternatively, because you believe the comparison was faulty?

I assume because a single sperm whale feeding once does not eliminate all life.

 

[Oddish]

Because you believe the sperm whale is evil or, alternatively, because you believe the comparison was faulty?

Because I believe that people are not cuttlefish.

 

[Tallguy]

Because I believe that people are not cuttlefish.

Cuttlefish are the same as people who have not discovered warp drive. Or have money. Either one.

 

[Farscape One]

The crystalline entities have been roaming the stars for god knows how long, if they were truly such a devestating threat, some interstellar empire would have eradicated them by now surely?

We don't know where it originated from. Could very well be away from most empires that would be able to fight it... Romulan, Klingon, Tholian, etc.

Another thing to remember is that many of the Class M worlds eaten by the Crystalline Entity may not have been identified as being the cause of those worlds being made dead. Any of those worlds outside Federation space may never have encountered it and would have no idea what to look for.

 

[NCC-73515]

Tholians might actually see it as a relative
That would be a great origin story: One of the old Tholian attempts to upgrade their ships with AI went south and that became the ever-growing spaceflake

 

[Phoenix219]

Her motivation was wrong. Picard's and Data's were right. (Well... Less wrong?)

She did the right thing. They were going to screw up.

Funny old world, innit?


As many have pointed out, this is undone by the very episode that introduced the CE.

Just a thought: Picard is more willing to try to talk to this galactic murdering snowflake than he is with any society with clear intelligence that is willing and capable of communication but does not have warp drive. There is no indication that the CE has developed this as a technology. Or is part of any kind of society. Or ticks ANY of Picard's (The Federation's) checkboxes for advanced communication.

Let the occasional planetary society face extinction? Sure. (More than one!) Eliminate a proven scourge to Federation citizens? That would be WRONG.

Oddly enough, that is still a relevent topic and debate in the modern day, with the rights of the mentally ill and/or criminal, vs the citizen population, with the development of suicide-level empathy. No matter how many die, the needle never moves.

 

[Tallguy]

Tholians might actually see it as a relative
That would be a great origin story: One of the old Tholian attempts to upgrade their ships with AI went south and that became the ever-growing spaceflake

That smells of "Vejur came from the Borg planet."