In The Pale Moonlight Review

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[sfdebris]

A few changes and put back some stuff that had to be cut for time

[butchdeadlift10]

oh no, I am watching a video with an opinion. I will show outrage that not everyone in the world already conforms to my ethics. My voice must be heard by the least influential people I can find that have no personal relationship to me. I shall compare him to a nazi.........nazi's breathe oxygen and I am confident this asshole does also. To hell with him and his media empire of having a youtube channel with no advertising what-so-ever. Do you realize how long I had to search in order to hate you?

[Decker22]

"It's a FAKE!"

I still laugh at that one...

[thenamelessone83]

@JimPlaysGames True. That's why I said it's debatable. Picard wasn't in his right mind at the time and while his actions may have been the right thing to do the reason he did it may not have been justified, he could have killed the red shirt not out of mercy but his hatred for the Borg.

The Borg were the best thing to happen to The Next Generation. They humanized Picard, created real drama,shown the Federation wasn't all powerful and that there were real threats out there.

[JimPlaysGames]

@thenamelessone83 good point, but Picard himself was rescued from assimilation so it wasn't impossible to save him. It's unclear whether the redshirt was asking to be killed or rescued. I think Picard's choice was correct, but that doesn't mean it wasn't an act of cold blooded murder. So it's still a grey area where he had to do something that was the lesser of two evils. And he did it without hesitation or regret, unlike Sisko who agonised about his choice before and after.

[thenamelessone83]

@JimPlaysGames That is debatable. Picard couldn't help them and (at least to Picard) being assimilated is a fate worse than death.

[Joekitty001]

Arguably the best episode in Trek. I guess Sisko does believe that the ends justify the means. Or the means justify the ends.

[JimPlaysGames]

@thenamelessone83 Picard has on occasion done things that could be called immoral. In First Contact when the nameless redshirt with nanoprobes going through his veins is pleading with Picard for help, Picard doesn't hesistate to kill him. As he also killed the borgified Ensign Lynch.

As Lily said "You didn't even try [to save him]. Where was your evolved sensibility then?"

Everybody's human, even Picard. But it took the Borg violating him to bring out that darkness in him.

[MrPodperson]

Problem is, some views ispo facto make you evil. Tolerance inherently has limits. We wouldn't tolerate a murderer because we respect his right to think that killing people is okay.

The question is merely over where you draw the line. And, as you would expect, this isn't a place where people agree.

[punkmonkoffunk]

been waiting for this to go back up

[Drazex]

@CIarKent Well, not so much a surprise attack, so much as a war on multiple fronts. Germany's a prime example of this, suffering defeat in both world wars largely due to a war on multiple fronts (Russia/USSR on one side, and Britain/USA/etc on the other). Further, whether or not they would join 'eventually' is irrelevant, since taking multiple factions out individually is far easier than when united, even when they form a single front, due to captured resources, etc

[CIarKent]

@Drazex well Sisko knew the Romulans will eventually enter the war anyway, since Bashir and his genetically engineered friends predicted it in their super-duper calculations.

so all he really did was speed up that process, which probably helped to defeat the Dominion by making the Romulan's war against them a surprise attack which they were not expecting and had no time to prepare for.

[aperson22222]

@ThePariahDark If you don't want to watch next month, let me suggest reading Unity instead, if you haven't already. I started reading it in July 2010 to get my fix when Chuck took a five-week hiatus (now THAT could arguably be called a lost month). I was still working through it almost a year later, but I really loved it, especially the first half. It even inspired me to start thinking about my own crossover fic.