"Children living in poverty or squalor while those who enjoy abundance look away."
We do treat our children (and others, btw) with total disregard in many different ways when there is profit to be made. We will cover up and hide the truth to "enjoy abundance". We're barbaric, and not as civilized as we'd like to think.
Another good episode. So far, this show has been on point.
I think the difference that Pike should have pointed out was that while we do not do intentionally.
I also think it was a good episode especially because the Enterprise crew did not save the child. I am glad they tried but story wise it is nice to see a loss every now and then just to keep it unpredictable.
we do intentionally. we choose to look away while they suffer and not make it our business while it happens around us. meanwhile for them 1 kid suffers to create their perfect planet
shareSo was this child-abusing society an alien one, or within the Federation? Because it sure was an alien one!
"Poverty, disease, war, they'll all be gone within the next 50 years" - Counselor Deanna Troi, a fucking THERAPIST in TNG said that about First Contact!!
Or is First Contact completely irrelevant now??
Alien, and not a part of the Federation. Thus, the reason they couldn't do anything about it.
shareCertainly true in our world and definitely true in Kurtzman's twisted Federation, but not true in Roddenberry's Federation.
An average episode. The theme was done better in the film Snowpiercer.
Yeah but how many people strap there kids to a torture machine, Come on. Sure some people exploit children. But in Gene Rodenberry 23rd Century, People are suppose to be better than we are today. The writers seem to forget that. They also forget that Vulcan only have sex once every 7 years. Frankly this show O.K. But dosn't come close to TOS, TNG or DS9.
shareThey just took "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by LeGuin from 1973 and turned it into a Star Trek Episode.
Not bad fodder. A classic morality conundrum story put into a Star Trek setting.
Not quite the same as sacrificing your smartest kid on the planet to serve as a battery for a giant computer that runs things.
shareI think it makes sense to do so ...
shareI mean its a moral dilemma. entire countries look the other way while literally 10s of thousands of kids go hungry and are exploited.
vs 1 kid being exploited for the entire planet to live in its utopia.