"the Prime Directive is not just a set of rules. It is a philosophy, and a very correct one." - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    Any good captain knows that’s a rule worth breaking. If your options are: a) save a whole planet of people or b) keep your fancy status job in a post-scarcity economy, then you know it’s morally worth it to get court marshalled.

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      10 months ago

      Besides, federation prison is just a sunny beach on New Zealand anyway. The worst part is getting stuck in the delta quadrant but that happened like one time.

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        10 months ago

        I didn’t remember what their prison is, but that makes the choice so much easier. Was that in Voyager?

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, it’s been awhile, but iirc in the first episode Janeway springs Paris from a prison in new zealand because she needs a pilot.