Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris"
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Finally got to season 4 and watched it…wow and hated it. Lets commit double genocide on a hunch because our history is so important… Felt super off how everyone was fine with commiting genocide…
The moral is that genocide is ok for maybe a better future?
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 days ago
When you get right down to it, that’s the essence of the temporal prime directive, is it not?
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Yeah, but in this case the genocide happened because of them. Without them there wouldnt be one. This is not a past shouldn’t be changed but a past that was changed.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 days ago
Well, their past wasn’t changed, and that’s the only past Starfleet is really concerned about - that’s the problem with predestination paradoxes.
I understand your reaction to the episode, but I also think you’re hitting on exactly the thing that makes it interesting.
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Oh I agree that it makes it interesting I just think it wasnt handled well. I think commiting genocide because of a hunch is fucked up. Honestly thats my main problem.
And I am stopping myself before I start draggibg RL into it. Thank you for engaging with me :D