Comment on Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character”
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months agoEven Picard broke the PD multiple times. If we are basing ethics on that then he’s no better.
In fairness, Picard is extremely upfront and honest that he has broken the Prime Directive and doesn’t regret it in the slightest. Separately, he also said that while rules are a good thing, rules cannot be universally absolute.
Janeway straight up said to another captain that she’s never broken the Prime Directive in her life, despite clearly doing it a bunch of times. She’s in denial.
That’s my only real issue with her is her comment to the Nova class captain about it.
However, I give her the benefit of the doubt here because she’s clearly trying to encourage him that they don’t need to abandon their morality. If she tells him that she’s done it half a dozen times or so then he might be more likely to assume that’s the standard.
Now we all know in hindsight that he’d already committed an atrocity and wanted assurance from Janeway that he wasn’t alone in his decisions to prioritize crew over other sapient beings, but she was simply seeing the younger version of herself in him and attempting to assure him that he doesn’t have to give up hope and sink to those depths.
Voyager has more of a problem with character writing consistency than it does an issue with Janeway specifically, IMO.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Every captain in starfleet seems to treat it more like the Prime Suggestion.
PlainSimpleGarak@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“I only bend the Prime Directive”