*@Theo Dious ~* Could be worse... What if it was Captain Leeroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) of the USS NCIS? The Turbolifts would be stopped for *_hours_* at a time. *;p*

Stop that turbulent!

@@Ragitsu Damned turbulents if they're not breaking down they're stopping for diatribes by the captain.

“And there dealers…”

lol wtf never noticed that before

Is that a mistake or…foreshadowing for the next episode ??

@@xellestarsame and this is my favourite S1 TNG episode

@@zandernewson9933 apparently that was her final scene filmed

@@xellestar wow that’s sad

Great spot!! I'd never noticed that before

She gets killed off in the next episode, but they filmed that episode before they filmed this one.

I come here, 6 years later, to emphasize how fucking relevant this scene is...

@@locutus94 And I totally fucking agree with you :)

Definitely

She decided to leave. It was Denise Crosby's choice

Meanwhile the suppliers planet was invaded by the Breen

That's exactly right! There was no upside for the Federation in the big picture. If Enterprise intervened on behalf of the addicts, the providers would have seen the Entrprise/Federation meddling, and not their own shortsighted greed, as the cause of their loss. If they provided support to enable the unhealthy and unsustainable relationship, when it finally does break down, or when the addicts finally manage to break the cylcle, the addicts would be angry with the Federation for knowingly enabling the relationship to continue so much longer than it needed to and not intervening on their behalf. Eitherway, the Federation would be the bad guy. The relationship was unsustainable, Picard knew that and didnt need to tell them that, nature would do it for him. A win for all involved to any who dare to see.

Hey there fellow traveler! “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.” ~Richard Nixon

In S7E13 "Homeward", Picard interprets the Prime Directive to an insanely fundamentalist degree. Here, he argues that the purpose of the Prime Directive is to protect these cultures, to prevent disaster. But in that episode, he's willing to let an entire culture be destroyed by a natural disaster, because evacuating them would expose them to the Starfleet. The Prime Directive is supposed to allow less advanced civilizations to "grow naturally". But what part of being totally annihilated is supposed to be "natural growth"?

@@AapoJoki TNG gets wonky with the PD sometimes, which is one of the series flaws as much as I love it. Now, I'm not an anthropologist, but I think one of the things they try to get to with the moral dilemma of exposing a primitive culture to and advance one is how well said culture would adjust if at all, or whether they would potentially go insane. It can depend on the tech gap too, but I think one side of the argument is that it would be better to let said culture go in a peace that they know over a potential nightmare that they don't. I at least grant that it's a moral gray, and that one way to look at the PD is that there may have been a legal precedent that defers to non-interference as a general rule for the sake of consistency in regards to Starfleet procedure. The show kind of sways around, but realistically there should still be case by case judgement calls.

In other words, you don’t agree with it.

Difference is Germany was not a less developed civilization. It suffered hardship after the treaty of Versaille took effect, but from the mid 1920s it still had a functioning democracy and much of its prosperity was restored. The crash of '29 was the trigger that led to the rise of Hitler.

If the U.S. had not gotten involved in WWI, then there would have been no WWII. So yah intervention is a bad idea all around.

@@Eric1-373 you cannot know that for sure also Japan attacking Pearl Harbor had a lot to do with the US saying that it.

@@williamsweeney3215 Why so obtuse? Germany would not have have had Hitler or National Socialism. There for no alliance with Japan. Which the U.S. would only have fought Japan, because there would be no European Second world war. The Entire world has to be involved to have a world war, yah know. I would also hazard to speculate that Japan would be crushed very fast, due to the U.S putting all it's effort into that front and Russia too since again, no over turn of the Old German power structor. Did you know the Germans in WWI before the U.S. got involved offered a peace treaty that said lets put all the boarders back the way they were and pretend this never happen. No change to status before war. By the Americans getting involved, it caused the British not to come to the peace table and it kept the war going. Need I go on?

@@williamsweeney3215 not sure what that guy was on about, the us not being there means that at the talks after the war, instead of WW letting british and french punish the central powers in exchange for creating the league of nations, they just have no one they need to argue with and can do what they want anyway. The biggest change is the war being extended by a year at most.

Its big. Like, really fucking big. There are some good videos out there that demonstrate just how ridiculously big the Enterprise-D is. To put it at is simplest, we only ever saw about 10% of the ship during the show. That ship is fucking massive!

@@Helbore isnt the saucer section something like 300m across and 100m high?

Like most philosophical concepts, on paper everything seems so clear. But in practical life it’s amazing how fast the lines get blurred.

@@Emp6ft10in exactly on paper they are just words. In life in order to enact you have to do so while affecting life and so they run to their ship to hide as to not see the pain that the directive allows to continue. In an episode words adoptive brother begs Picard to save as many ppl on a doomed planet and ultimately Picard says no and hide behind the PD. I get the do not interfere in political issues but to have the ability to save lives but not to because of some bullshit policy is cowardly.

Not to go political, but America's reasons (our leaders' reasons) for getting in to Iraq and Afghanistan has NOTHING to do with bringing democracy and peace...that was the sales pitch to the public. Sadly, this has happened again and again in history around the world.

not one of the 'elites' thought they were bringing 'democracy' into Iraq - that was the BS the media was asked to put out. Even the evil dick cheney stated in the early 90s that iraq was a quagmire and was best to stay away from, after GW1. They knew toppling a stong man would result in decades of sectarian war and chaos.

Beverly is the right one, and Picard is the one that keeps asserting that when you break the rules for the right reasons everything somehow goes wrong

@@icantthinkofanything798 The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

@@icantthinkofanything798 nah...Picard got it right. Among other things, you're making the assumption that everything would have gone right for the species after they were off of those drugs, rather than the very real likelihood that things could have gone really badly for them in ways that the Federation never intended.

I always saw it more as officers having a varied opinion on the prime directive. Some believe it to be right while others may have their qualms, even if they are well trained on it.

@@andersonn Everyone has an opinion. Especially on such a generalized and controversial topic which could (and should) be interpreted in different ways, which can't be blindly applied to every situation or context. But of course the opinion of the highest ranking command officer is the one which carries all the weight. I understand the captain might have to justify his decisions to his superior officers. I don't understand why he should have to do so to his subordinate officers - unless he is basically just waving his authority around to demonstrate a personal point. I imagine his decision would not be absolute, it would (eventually) be subject to review and possible re-evaluation. There must be official protocols to allow the doctor (or any other officer) to challenge the captain's decision without challenging his command authority.

Maybe go and watch the episode before spouting off with a 'holier than thou' argument.

Pain is a good teacher.

Picard said that it would pass in time, didn't say how long it would take. You're overanalyzing the comment.

There's always plenty of Orion Syndicates and Harry Mudds hovering near the edges of Federation space and they're always willing to opportunistically help out struggling businesses with some "creative logistics" ... for a small percentage. So don't feel bad for the Brekkian drug lords, their life of easy luxury is hardly threatened - it's liberated from reliance on incompetent felicium-addicted Ornaran freighter crews, indeed, new business partners might even be able to increase product demand by expanding into new markets.

Ya kinda missed the whole point of the episode.

In other words, you don't feel bad for the people who were tricked into becoming addicted to a drug that cured their illness, and told by their drug dealers that the withdrawal pains were because they had to keep taking said drug. No, you feel bad for the poor drug dealers who now have to actually make a living that doesn't involve manufacturing that drug.

I hope this is a joke, and if so, kudos. If not, it's kind of the reverse of what a decent civilized human being should feel, but you do you. I imagine there's a drug dealer culture somewhere, cut off from civilization, where this is considered a truly moral outrage, and not satirically.

@@szahmad2416 Do you think the entire planet knows the whole situation? In the episode it took Starfleet's greatest minds to piece together that the treatment was actually an addictive substance. Imagine spending decades of your life making a product you thought was helping people only to realize that not only is that a lie, but your economy is just...gone. The ensuing power vacuum and civil war will kill millions, and without external aid they will be far worse than the people who have to go through withdrawal for a few weeks and then be largely unfazed (and wouldn't even have to suffer that if they had just listened) either economically or socially.

I loved episode where Riker was injured on alien planet where he was seen as alien. He tried to escape by convincing a nurse in hospital who wanted have sex with alien😆😂🤣

"said not a single human ever"

In this case if the federation refused to help two groups of people who lost the ability and knowledge to repair and maintain their interplanetary ships. If they did they would only continued the exploitation of one group of people who were under the control of another rich and spoiled people through the uses of a a drug narcotic that was believed to cure the poor from a disease however it was only withdraw. They also would have them a fake drug that would ease their withdrawal symptoms without pain. The captain refused to help because it was an internal matter that the federation didn’t have jurisdiction over nor needed to get involved. Despite not helping them with the drug he did refused to repair their ships so the shipments of the drug with cease there by allowing the poor to go to a long painful detox that would read them of their need for the drug and the rich from exploiting them in return. Thus allowing both parties to learn to sustain themselves with out one on top of other. So no one was going to die by not helping out any further then they already have but they would start to limp along the way form them to stand on their own two feet.

For anyone who has looked at the history of humans when they "help" each other, no, not really.