Star Trek: The Original Series and The Next Generation
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Or the thousands of other people on that colony or the colony that was destroyed with Riker on it.
Like seriously, I get the whole lets try to talk to the monstrous being that destroys worlds angle, but it still is a monstrous being that destroys worlds. Like, are they going to get to change it's ways and work at Target?
It's a long shot, but if you have the option to try, it's the best option. The worst case scenario seems to be that it does just go and work at Target, and you don't get to destroy it. Unfortunately, destroying it doesn't do the dead people any good either.
It does stop them from having more company.
And at least one of their family members was happy that it was dead. Like I totally get that talking to it might produce some results. But it eats planets. What are they going to say, go eat those planets way over there away from us and be someone else's problem?
However, I think that this is just one of those situations where the TNG show framed a situation wrong. Like with Captain Jelico. Dude wanted the crew to work 6 hour shifts instead of 8 hours and Riker just totally shot that idea down. Jelico had to disavow Picard after a Black Ops mission goes wrong and we are supposed to be mad at him from not instantly plunging the Federation into a war. Then when they figure out a plan to stop it all, Riker still is a jackass to Jelico and makes Jelico ask him to do the mission.
The show will frame things the wrong way sometimes, and I think that the Crystaline Entity was one of those things. Its essentially a giant Space shark that eats planets. Sure it was alive, but it was dangerous and had to be stopped.
I have no doubt, because revenge is a thing, but that's not a very good reason to kill it if there's another option. Again, there probably isn't one, but there's genuinely no reason not to try. I don't think it's complicated.
Jellicoe on the other hand did nothing wrong.
You know this was pretty much the entire story arc of Discovery S4? Just replace mysterious space monster with mysterious device run by mysterious aliens.
I haven't seen that season.
It basically revolves around this Dark Matter Anomaly that was destroying planets and systems, which they discover was an artifical device, harvesting space for a certain substance that an extremely advanced alien race needed. Most of the season once they figure out what's going on is a race/fight between one faction who wants to just blow it up, and another faction including the Discovery, who wants to communicate and get the aliens to stop doing it or at least move it to uninhabited areas. It was a pretty good season overall and actually stuck the landing for once... but it pretty much the same dilemma as here, with the slight caveat of the CE being directly responsible vs the "at one remove" of the aliens running the DMA.
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Yeah, I haven't seen it yet, so I am not going to read that.
Picard: “Do what I say, not what I do. “
Picard did not give the Borg that consideration. When it happens to you, it’s different. We’re all hypocrites until it effects us. The Borg would make the ultimate Target workers. They would surpass Amazon, put all other corporations out of business, and literally wipe the competition off the map.
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Oh, I know, I considered using a First Contact one-liner too.
Lily's standing in to teach Picard the same lesson.Hope you get a chance to check it out! It's the one Disco season arc that actually pays off, though with some pacing issues.
Destroying the entity isn't justice, though. At least not the type of justice the Federation believes in, judging by the fact they don't execute their own criminals or hostile alien prisoners, either.
Y'ain't getting it. You give a kid a choice between a T-65 X-Wing starfighter and a Type 6 shuttlecraft and they're going home with the X-Wing every time. Every time. Because it's cool.
Have you ever met a child?
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