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Cogenitor

posted 7 years ago by timmytony80
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Was anyone else disturbed with Archer's "At Home"nees with Vissian slavery?! I can forgive him if he was hoping to subtly raise an abolitionist movement after a fellowship with the Vissians. But if not, very disturbing! T!Pol's too! And why were the Vissians and The Federation so eager to release sensitive info? Who's THAT friendly?! Were they on a date? Why didn't Archer destroy the Vissian pod when he rammed it thru the solar flare? How'd he know it w/dn't kill them? Why was the Vissian o.k. w/ that?

[–] troy2000me 7 years ago

It's not the humans place to judge other cultures.

[–] kwestmo (4114) 4 years ago

I found this episode very disturbing. It's not like they don't ignore the Prime Directive whenever they choose.

[–] Moonglum9 (10711) 4 years ago

I don't think there was a Prime Directive at that point in time. I think one of the points of this episode was that this incident was one of several mishaps which lead to the PD being established.

[–] kwestmo (4114) 4 years ago

You are probably correct. But Archer's attitude toward slavery was disturbing. Few shows or movies bother me like this episode.

[–] twinA (4826) 4 years ago

That's the thing; we humans saw it as slavery. While it very much could be, we would not know all the facts of their culture to make that determination. Remember, at this point in Star Trek lore, humanity is simply trying to get its foot in the door of intergalactic diplomacy and did not need to rock the boat. It's not that awful things are being ignored; humanity is just having to play the long game before it can do some actual change, and vice versa with alien standards towards us.

~~/o/

[–] kwestmo (4114) 4 years ago

Thanks

[–] TylerAArse (2654) 4 years ago

The most disturbing part to me was Trip's behavior. Defying orders because he thought another culture's way-of-life is wrong. Someone that narrow-minded shouldn't be traveling through space to other worlds.

[–] kwestmo (4114) 4 years ago

You could use that logic about another country or state