Ship moral/free will?

[Aq-s'ain]

Do you think that ships should have some kind of 'moral' or something? I mean... How do you think Picard (for example) would react if Starfleet Command would tell him to "attack that planet over there and slaughter 3 billion civilians"? Someone from a bloodthirsty race would probably do that, but peaceful? It just doesn't sound right.

[Alpha Kodiak]

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Originally posted by Aq-s'ain:
Do you think that ships should have some kind of 'moral' or something? I mean... How do you think Picard (for example) would react if Starfleet Command would tell him to "attack that planet over there and slaughter 3 billion civilians"? Someone from a bloodthirsty race would probably do that, but peaceful? It just doesn't sound right.

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That's why we have to distribute those video game/mind control devices to all of the crews.

[Q]

This has been discussed in this forum some time ago and most believed it would be justified if such genocidal actions would provoke a decline in hapiness for a peaceful race and a rise in anger of all other empires. But this can only be implemented by MM and so if its done we will certainly have to wait quite a bit, because there are more important things for them.