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minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·1 month agoIf violating the prime directive was required to reduce an existential threat to the federation they would also distribute phasers like candy.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 month agoThe Federation barely hands out phaser rifles to soldiers in the middle of an existential war…
minus-squareramble81@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoCouldn’t they just replicate more weapons?
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoyup, the prime directive is like magic, it takes a mundane, easy-to-fix plot and turns it into a nail-biting jaunt into naughty-land
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoWhile also being ethically correct and hence not a needless complication of the trivial.
minus-squareGladaed@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoBut that would never happen, since a diabolically evil story teller is required for such scenario. People don’t get strapped to tram tracks every day.
minus-squareSolacefromSilence@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoMaybe that’s what Standard Oil and GM were really trying to protect us from
If violating the prime directive was required to reduce an existential threat to the federation they would also distribute phasers like candy.
The Federation barely hands out phaser rifles to soldiers in the middle of an existential war…
Couldn’t they just replicate more weapons?
Depends on the plot
yup, the prime directive is like magic, it takes a mundane, easy-to-fix plot and turns it into a nail-biting jaunt into naughty-land
While also being ethically correct and hence not a needless complication of the trivial.
But that would never happen, since a diabolically evil story teller is required for such scenario.
People don’t get strapped to tram tracks every day.
Maybe that’s what Standard Oil and GM were really trying to protect us from