Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26349008-20150618234738

I mean the way and reasons for Rose rebelling against the Homeworld in an attempt to Protect Earth is strangely similar to how Picard and the crew of the enterprise had to effectively defend the Baku's Home planet from the Sona who were planning to exploit the radition in the planets rings. The Thermolitic reaction from the injector used to harvest the radiation had a side effect in which once the process was done it would have rendered the panet uninhabitable for generations to come similar to how kindergarten "sucks the life out of the Earth" (despite the fact that there is nothing alive in rock). Picard, like rose, was appalled since it went against the federation's ideals (the federation and the sona were temporarilly partners) and he and the Crew of the USS Enterprise E then fought to prevent the Sona from starting the procedure.

And also note that once picard got to know the Baku he found an incentive in protecting their planet. What should also be noted is that what happened 6,000 years ago is a good example of destroying a small group to satisfy the needs of a larger group.

Ad here is a quote from said movie that escribes the Homeworld's incentve: " But some of the darkest chapters in the history of my world involve the forced relocation of a small group of people to satisfy the demands of a large one."

this is somewhat hard to red but you will get an idea of how similar the crisis must have been:

 DOUGHERTY: You're looking well, Jean-Luc. ...Rested.

 PICARD: I won't let you move them, Admiral. I will take this to the Federation Council.

 DOUGHERTY: I'm acting on orders form the Federation Council.

 PICARD: How can there be an order to abandon the Prime Directive?

 DOUGHERTY: The Prime Directive doesn't apply. These people are not indigenous to this planet. They were never meant to be immortal. We'll simply be restoring them to their natural evolution.

 PICARD: Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?

 DOUGHERTY: Jean-Luc, there are six hundred people down there. We'll be able to use the regenerative properties of this radiation to help billions. ...The Son'a have developed a procedure to collect the metaphasic particles from the planets rings.

 PICARD: A planet in Federation space.

 DOUGHERTY: That's right. We have the planet. They have the technology. ...A technology we can't duplicate. You know what that makes us? ...Partners.

 PICARD: Our partners are nothing more than petty thugs.

 DOUGHERTY: On Earth, petroleum once turned petty thugs into world leaders. Warp drive transformed a bunch of Romulan thugs into an Empire. We can handle the Son'a. I'm not worried about that.

 PICARD: Someone probably said the same thing about the Romulans a century ago.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> DOUGHERTY: With metaphasics, life spans will be doubled. ...An entire new medical science will evolve. I understand your Chief Engineer has the use of his eyes for the first time in his life. ...Would you take that away from him?

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> PICARD: There are metaphasic particles all over the Briar Patch. Why does it have to be this planet?

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> DOUGHERTY: It's the concentration in the rings that makes the whole damned thing work. Don't ask me to explain it. I only know they inject something into the rings that starts a thermolytic reaction. When it's over, the planet will be uninhabitable for generations.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> PICARD: Admiral, delay the procedure. Let my people look at the technology.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> DOUGHERTY: Our best scientific minds already have. We can't find any other way to do this.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> PICARD: Then the Son'a can establish a separate colony on this planet until we do.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> DOUGHERTY: It would take ten years of normal exposure to begin to reverse their condition. Some of them won't survive that long. Besides, they don't want to live in the middle of the Briar Patch. ...Who would?

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> PICARD: The Ba'ku. ...We are betraying the principles upon which the Federation was founded. It's an attack upon its very soul. ...And it will destroy the Ba'ku ...just as cultures have been destroyed in every other forced relocation throughout history.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> DOUGHERTY: Jean-Luc, we are only moving six hundred people.

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> PICARD: How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million? How many people does it take, Admiral?

<p style="font-size:14px;line-height:22px;margin-bottom:0px!important;"> DOUGHERTY: I'm ordering you to the Goren system. I'm also ordering the release of the Son'a officers. File whatever protest you wish to, Captain. ...By the time you do, this will all be done.

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