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Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 4x01 "Valles Marineris" (startrek.website)
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LoglinePike leads the crew into a stellar storm, sending the Enterprise back 65 million years.

Story by: Henry Alonso Myers & Alan B. McElroy

Written by: Akiva Goldsman & Henry Alonso Myers

Directed by: Chris Fisher

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 days ago (3 children)

When you get right down to it, that's the essence of the temporal prime directive, is it not?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but in this case the genocide happened because of them. Without them there wouldnt be one. This is not a past shouldn't be changed but a past that was changed.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    Well, their past wasn't changed, and that's the only past Starfleet is really concerned about - that's the problem with predestination paradoxes.

    I understand your reaction to the episode, but I also think you're hitting on exactly the thing that makes it interesting.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Oh I agree that it makes it interesting I just think it wasnt handled well. I think commiting genocide because of a hunch is fucked up. Honestly thats my main problem.

    And I am stopping myself before I start draggibg RL into it. Thank you for engaging with me :D

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