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<blockquote data-quote="Don" data-source="post: 13229" data-attributes="member: 1371">You can't take out the evolutionary arguments.&nbsp; That was the *entire* basis of the dilemma.&nbsp; They even made a point that the crewmen felt the superior species was improperly treating the inferior species (akin to your American meddling example), but it didn't seem to be a big dilemma whether or not to mess with that (I was expecting Archer to at least do something about that, but it never came up).If the entire dilemma was simply &quot;should we cure these people who'll continue to opress the inferior species&quot;, then, yes, I can agree with your points.&nbsp; But, like I said, the entire dilemma was an evolutionary one, which is a different story (as I described in my previous post).Star Trek has &quot;played god&quot; numerous times by saving a planet from extinction.&nbsp; I can recall at several episodes from TOS and TNG where stuff like this happened.&nbsp; Why didn't they invoke the Prime Directive and say &quot;Your race is suffering from a terrible plague?&nbsp; Oh well, that's evolution for ya!&quot;Just wait.&nbsp; This whole &quot;do we have the right to mess with another species&quot; question will go out the window many times before Enterprise is done.&nbsp; Planets will be saved, plagues will be cured, and interspecies conflicts will be rectified, all flying in the face of evolution.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don, post: 13229, member: 1371"] You can't take out the evolutionary arguments. That was the *entire* basis of the dilemma. They even made a point that the crewmen felt the superior species was improperly treating the inferior species (akin to your American meddling example), but it didn't seem to be a big dilemma whether or not to mess with that (I was expecting Archer to at least do something about that, but it never came up). If the entire dilemma was simply "should we cure these people who'll continue to opress the inferior species", then, yes, I can agree with your points. But, like I said, the entire dilemma was an evolutionary one, which is a different story (as I described in my previous post). Star Trek has "played god" numerous times by saving a planet from extinction. I can recall at several episodes from TOS and TNG where stuff like this happened. Why didn't they invoke the Prime Directive and say "Your race is suffering from a terrible plague? Oh well, that's evolution for ya!" Just wait. This whole "do we have the right to mess with another species" question will go out the window many times before Enterprise is done. Planets will be saved, plagues will be cured, and interspecies conflicts will be rectified, all flying in the face of evolution. :-) [/QUOTE]

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