XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: graham@ditl.org   
      
   David Johnston wrote:   
      
   > Graham Kennedy wrote:   
   >   
   >>ToolPackinMama wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>Graham, I understand that you would probably like it better if Kirk did   
   >>>give them weapons,   
   >>   
   >>No, not at all. Actually I think that would be a   
   >>horrendous thing to do. Clear PD violation, and   
   >>one of Kirk's worst at that.   
   >   
   >   
   > How about letting the planet be taken over by the Klingons?   
   > Is that a PD violation?   
      
   Uncertain. In one TNG episode Data declared that the Federation   
   did allow the strong to conquer the weak. The Klingons were a   
   post warp society, so there are different rules for them, but   
   the PD might easily say that Tyree should be left to rot.   
      
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