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Star Trek: Voyager: The Disease (1999)
No pity for asylum seekers?
All the attention is focused on Harry Kim's infatuation and Captain Janeway's archaic sexual morality, but I noticed something else and even more disturbing. When Tuvoc discovers a stowaway who has fled the Varro's ship (elsewhere referred to as "xenophobic aliens") and asks for asylum, Chakotay doesn't know how quickly to tell the Varro authorities that he has found an insurgent. Obviously, the Federation of Planets is not a party to the Geneva Convention, but I still expected the 24th century to be a little more enlightened. A blemish on this fine episode, but such an action against an alleged bunch of terrorists was not a problem before, for example in The Chute S3. E3. Whose side are our explorers really on?
Star Trek: Voyager: Ex Post Facto (1995)
How credible is this story?
Suppose we receive our first visit on Earth from travelers from a planet Banea in the delta quadrant. Do they then go with a professor to his house to have dinner with his wife ("honey, I have two guests from Banea visiting" "why didn't you call?")?
Suppose you are 70,000 light years from home, your spacecraft breaks down and miraculously you find a planet where Baneans live who - despite the fact that they are at war with their neighbors - are willing to help you. As captain of the ship, you send an ensign and a lieutenant. If that lieutenant loses interest after just an hour of talking about the repairs and, out of boredom, follows his baser urges and makes out with the wife of his host, then I don't think it would take a murder to give that lieutenant another job in the future....