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<blockquote data-quote="Rabulias" data-source="post: 9731082" data-attributes="member: 16651">I also wonder about Kirk and the crew feeling remorse after finding the truth about the scavengers. I mean, what if they opened the helmet and it was a Gorn? Or a Klingon? Or some strange-looking alien lifeform never encountered before? The loss of 7,000 lifeforms is still a reason for remorse. They could not scan the intact ship, but I would think they could estimate that such a massive craft might hold a commensurately larger crew. It is not clear to me if they knew the final salvo would destroy the scavengers' ship, but the crew had to know it was a possibility, so they should be prepared for a high body count. And by all means, considering the 100 million innocent beings on Sullivan's Planet, the situation gave the crew little choice.As for the remorse about the &quot;best and brightest,&quot; the message falls a bit flat to me. The humans who launched off into space many generations ago could well have been our best and brightest, but doing the right thing, being a moral, conscientious person, is not something that is genetic. While it is tragic that the original hopes, dreams, and ideals of that first group ended up forgotten and abandoned by their descendants, it is not much of a surprise. The crew could reflect on the tragic irony, or the sobering and humbling concept that their own descendants are not guaranteed to uphold and maintain the ethics of the Federation, but they should not be more remorseful based on the scavengers' ancestors. Maybe it's just me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rabulias, post: 9731082, member: 16651"] I also wonder about Kirk and the crew feeling remorse after finding the truth about the scavengers. I mean, what if they opened the helmet and it was a Gorn? Or a Klingon? Or some strange-looking alien lifeform never encountered before? The loss of 7,000 lifeforms is still a reason for remorse. They could not scan the intact ship, but I would think they could estimate that such a massive craft might hold a commensurately larger crew. It is not clear to me if they knew the final salvo would destroy the scavengers' ship, but the crew had to know it was a possibility, so they should be prepared for a high body count. And by all means, considering the 100 million innocent beings on Sullivan's Planet, the situation gave the crew little choice. As for the remorse about the "best and brightest," the message falls a bit flat to me. The humans who launched off into space many generations ago could well have been our best and brightest, but doing the right thing, being a moral, conscientious person, is not something that is genetic. While it is tragic that the original hopes, dreams, and ideals of that first group ended up forgotten and abandoned by their descendants, it is not much of a surprise. The crew could reflect on the tragic irony, or the sobering and humbling concept that their own descendants are not guaranteed to uphold and maintain the ethics of the Federation, but they should not be more remorseful based on the scavengers' ancestors. Maybe it's just me. [/QUOTE]

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