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Star Trek's Robert Beltran: The Prime Directive is 'fascist crap'

posted 8 years ago by TMC-4
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Robert Beltran is known for two things in the Star Trek universe: playing Commander Chakotay in "Star Trek: Voyager" from 1995-2001, and complaining about it to the press. Get Beltran going, and he'll grumble about just about anything related to Star Trek. He didn't like the monotony of shooting. ("I often say it's like working in a factory.") And he's not a fan of its predictable format. ("I kept telling the writers, 'If you can just take three minutes off a bridge scene and write another scene with human beings talking, the show is going to be much better.'") He even rails against the show's "Prime Directive," a guiding principle that prohibits Starfleet characters from interfering with the

[–] Painbow 8 years ago

Totally agree.

PD is bullshït. Aside from allowing people to die, there's also the issue of other species NOT abiding by it. What good does it do when you ignore a pre-warp civilisation but three weeks later, a species like the Romulans or the Cardassians arrive to conquer them and steal all their resources?

You smugly cite the Prime Directive as grounds for moral superiority while a planet is being raped by other space-faring cultures. Your inaction becomes meaningless.

[–] glenn1199 8 years ago

While I agree about the prime directive. Voyager could have done fine with a lot less Robert Beltran and his complaining.

[–] dai_grepher1051 8 years ago

A-choochy choochy moya. Chakotay is almost as annoying as Nelix.

[–] TMC-4 8 years ago

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/robert-beltran-says-the-prime-directive-is-fascist-crap.283518/

[–] roland-rockerfella 8 years ago

Beltran was given a very well paying steady job and did nothing but bitch and moan the whole time. Most TV actors would have given their eye teeth for such a role.

[–] Angry_Dukat 8 years ago

Most actors would give anything to play a poorly written whipping boy with no spine?

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