Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 8991188" data-attributes="member: 710">In my head I try to envision a Section 31 show I would enjoy and fits the Star Trek ethos. I don't think that would be easy to pull off.It can't be just a power fantasy: "Hey, we have super-advanced tech, let's torture people, blow stuff up, and what not for the Greater Good (tm) completely consequence-free!"Each story would probably involve the protagonists only having bad choices to a problem and finding the choice that is the least bad, or whose consequences they can accept the best. Some of the choices should cost the Federation and the protagonists in the short-term in exchange for a better outcome in the long run.Whenever someone goes for the convenient short-cut, it needs to have some blow-back. Sure, you genocided some aliens that were going to take over that super-valuable dekalitihium planet to fuel their own genocide plans, but someone else gets scared, and abandons contact with all aliens and cancels their admission process to the Federation.Discovery Season 2 and Picard Season 3 are basically dealing directly with Section 31 fall-out already.</blockquote>