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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It being hard to watch is exactly why I love this episode so much, it highlights that with all the hope and optimism and ideals and protocols, sometimes there are situations that there is no right answer. Its the purest essence of the Kobayashi Maru test.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    But there seems to be a right answer

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I don't see an objectively correct answer, the 2 choices boil down to "uphold starfleet's commitment to protecting sentient life and increase the risk of not surviving the return to the Alpha Quadrant" or "abandon the ideals and increase the odds of crew survival and rescue the two people who were fused together." Both are not ideal choices, both come with tradeoffs. Neither one is the perfectly morally correct choice.

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