View Single Post Old February 18 2013, 03:07 PM   #180 Robert
Maxwell Horribly Depressed Robert Maxwell's Avatar Location: I
dunno. Space.  BillJ wrote: View Post Robert Maxwell wrote: View
Post It's Federation space. Not necessarily a Federation planet
over which they have jurisdiction to do as they please. You can
understand the distinction between a planet and the space around
it, yes? I can see two problems with this argument:  1) The
actual radiation that they plan on collecting is in space. So
the radiation does belong to the Federation if the space belongs
to the Federation.  2) The Federation "space" argument gives the
Federation an incredible amount of power over evolving cultures
and who they choose to deal with when they begin exploring the
stars. On point 1, the Federation apparently could not collect
the radiation without rendering the planet uninhabitable. If
they could find a way to collect it without killing the Ba'ku,
that might be acceptable. But they certainly couldn't go through
with the S