As a christian.

[Lune]

Originally Posted by magnetaress [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

G-d and Jesus aren't space commies per see they still want people to do for themselves. Prime directive sorta. Just they don't see good in starvation and torture. They won't feed space druggies they send them to rehab facilities. Or refugee camps. All of which have super strict rules and limits on lifestyle. Hence you get all those idiots riding out to the frontier and becoming maquee instead of signing up as infrantry during the dominion wars. It's a mess. Butt it's not really the Federations fault.

If you think about it, the Dominion War is a fucking disaster. Growing up I always wondered why people were so fucking gung ho about joining Starfleet, then I realized, within the show's universe, all those slobs on remote outposts were studying some Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings shit going down on these primitive planets. No wonder Worf's brother couldn't resist inserting himself into that planet's religion. They didn't have time to flesh it out in a 44 minute episode, but he was clearly that planet's Gandalf. They joined up to go out into the frontier to study that shit and then got thrown into a meatgrinder.

Also makes the prime directive make an insane amount of sense on a personal level. You can imagine the temptation to join Starfleet so you can become a God. Probably what Jesus was now that I think about it... just another redshirt