The Ferengi are hyper-capitalist exploiters who enslave women and Star Fleet not only allows this but does business with them
Yes, this is the nerdiest post I've made.
The Ferengi are hyper-capitalist exploiters who enslave women and Star Fleet not only allows this but does business with them
Yes, this is the nerdiest post I've made.
The prime directive is objectively evil and the most perfect encapsulation of liberalism
Watched the episode with Worf's half brother and the planet whose atmosphere is breaking down, this entire civilization is going to die but because they're medieval Picard is like "we absolutely CANNOT interfere in their culture's natural development!" even though they're about to develop into a bunch of skeletons. Really rubbed me the wrong way.
The writers know it is terrible which is why there are a dozen or so episodes about it
Yeah, the episode clearly frames them as wrong and Worf's renegade brother as right but I'm still disappointed in the Federation. Maybe deep down I just want it to be the Culture.
Ironically I did think the 'Prime Directive' episode of The Orville was suprisingly good, where
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They land on a planet whose orbit moves through some regions where time passes super fast, the first officer saves some bronze age villager using future technology, then after the planet disappears and comes back they find hundreds of years have passed and she's revered as a goddess. They obviously have a moral dilemma because she's fucked up their cultural development, they're waging holy wars in her name, etc etc. They timeskip further ahead to the modern age where there's still religious extremism, eventually they leave their 'notData' behind and the planet disappears and reappears as a hyper advanced spacefaring civilization, who beams up to their ship and is like "Yeah, cultures all go through that religious phase, if it hadn't been you we'd have worshipped some other random thing, don't sweat it. BTW we're more advanced than you now, when you're on our level we'll contact you."