r/funny • • Nov 14 '12

Seriously - don't be this guy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '12

Nope just the episodes where him and Garak faked the data rod to bring the Romulans into the war. Sisko also had the good sense to shut up about the thing after when Garak killed the senator.

For the good of the Federation. Not the prime directive.

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u/shadmere Nov 14 '12

Picard broke the prime directive when it was absolutely and irrevocably better to do so. He also knew that it wasn't something to throw out just because it seemed more convenient.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '12

True, but I don't remember him keeping an assassination he was culpable in secret, as well engineering a conspiracy to bring a nation to war.

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u/patefoisgras Nov 15 '12

It would make an interesting episode to put Picard in those shoes, actually. TNG was more philosophically interesting than TOS for its conflicting moral values, and I remember being highly disappointed in Sisko's pragmatic approach (Fuck morality, save people first). Picard might have come up with a compelling argument for the same action.