Post by jackphoton on Sept 5, 2023 22:23:05 GMT -7
"This is the commander of (your ship's name here). All cities and installations on (planet name goes here) have been located, identified, and fed into our fire-control system. In (given time limit), the entire inhabited surface of your planet will be destroyed. You have that long to (comply with your stated demand spoken here)."
What is the justification for GO24... It could be a very elaborate bluff that surprises even Uhura. Could be. We'll go with legit order to obliterate a planetary surface, killing every last living inhabitant. It's called 'genocide' even in Star Trek's time. Maybe even worse, terracide for the unprecedented devastation.
The UFP Council and SFC have decided it's better to wipe a world out, than isolate it or otherwise avoid, hamstring or foul-up any given space-faring society. Given, Eminiar is highly advanced, are able to pre-determine transporter arrival coordinates before beaming commences suggesting they can isolate transporter scanners and focuser beams or whatever. They have disintigration booths and powerful disruptor weapons and a high personal sense of duty. They are not warp capable. They mathematically materialize cobalt bombs at planetary distances, can they replicate that in real life?
In this one instance, Kirk calls GO24. Eminiar is not exactly a weakling in this case having already destroyed one starship 50 years previous with planetary defenses and offensive capabilities. This is likely a constraint as GO 24 cannot likely be called on harmless inhabitants throwing rocks as perhaps Garth did against Antos when his crew mutineed. But it's not like the people of Eminiar have much choice in the matter. and deserve obliteration even though their fate is likely the booth anyway.
What is the scenario that justifies GO24 from benevolent, tree-hugging utopian Federation? Or rather, what does the wording look like that specifies the guidelines?
What is the justification for GO24... It could be a very elaborate bluff that surprises even Uhura. Could be. We'll go with legit order to obliterate a planetary surface, killing every last living inhabitant. It's called 'genocide' even in Star Trek's time. Maybe even worse, terracide for the unprecedented devastation.
The UFP Council and SFC have decided it's better to wipe a world out, than isolate it or otherwise avoid, hamstring or foul-up any given space-faring society. Given, Eminiar is highly advanced, are able to pre-determine transporter arrival coordinates before beaming commences suggesting they can isolate transporter scanners and focuser beams or whatever. They have disintigration booths and powerful disruptor weapons and a high personal sense of duty. They are not warp capable. They mathematically materialize cobalt bombs at planetary distances, can they replicate that in real life?
In this one instance, Kirk calls GO24. Eminiar is not exactly a weakling in this case having already destroyed one starship 50 years previous with planetary defenses and offensive capabilities. This is likely a constraint as GO 24 cannot likely be called on harmless inhabitants throwing rocks as perhaps Garth did against Antos when his crew mutineed. But it's not like the people of Eminiar have much choice in the matter. and deserve obliteration even though their fate is likely the booth anyway.
What is the scenario that justifies GO24 from benevolent, tree-hugging utopian Federation? Or rather, what does the wording look like that specifies the guidelines?
Eminiar is: a space faring race that poses an imminent threat to Federation space lanes and promises to continue such threat without remorse.
What other possibilities are there? What are the consequences of failure? If the ship is destroyed or fails to complete its mission of destruction, that race would be justified in waging war vs. UFP. What are war crime potentials? Eminiar is clearly not prime directive qualifier by any means.