That would be determined by an investigation of the incident, in this instance Picard and crew were traitors disobeying the lawful command of the government. A RL government would probably throw them in the stockade.ChakatBlackstar wrote:
They weren't trying to kill the E-E, well not officially, they were trying to escort it back to the Ba'ku planet so they wouldn't contact the Federation.
And the line they'd be crossing, is the one where you destroy a ship in the same fleet as your own. That's usually not condoned in any armed forces I know of.
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"Escorting it back" and "hitting it with weapons of mass destruction" are somewhat mutually exclusive.ChakatBlackstar wrote:They weren't trying to kill the E-E, well not officially, they were trying to escort it back to the Ba'ku planet so they wouldn't contact the Federation.
Neither are mutiny or treason, and since Picard and his crew had already committed both I doubt destroying a Fed ship would have made matters that much worse.And the line they'd be crossing, is the one where you destroy a ship in the same fleet as your own. That's usually not condoned in any armed forces I know of.
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When did they do that? They fired an unpridicable weapon, but there's no evidence that it was a "weapon of mass destruction".Captain Seafort wrote: "Escorting it back" and "hitting it with weapons of mass destruction" are somewhat mutually exclusive.
Purhaps not from your point of view, but that's still a Starfleet ship they'd be destroying. They could have friends on there, people they've worked with. People they've fought side by side with. mutiny and treason are one thing, but shooting your friends is a whole different issue.Neither are mutiny or treason, and since Picard and his crew had already committed both I doubt destroying a Fed ship would have made matters that much worse.And the line they'd be crossing, is the one where you destroy a ship in the same fleet as your own. That's usually not condoned in any armed forces I know of.
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All of whom are already trying to kill you.ChakatBlackstar wrote:They could have friends on there, people they've worked with. People they've fought side by side with. mutiny and treason are one thing, but shooting your friends is a whole different issue.
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A weapon that created a "subspace tear" somewhat similar to the rift that everyone freaked out over in "Force of Nature", and very nearly destroyed the Enterprise.ChakatBlackstar wrote:When did they do that? They fired an unpridicable weapon, but there's no evidence that it was a "weapon of mass destruction".
That's on top of the dozens of WMDs they'd already hit the E-E with - photon torpedoes. I'd say that calling weapons that are dozens or hundreds of times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb "weapons of mass destruction" is pretty accurate.
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WMD's are all relative. Now for us a Photon Torpedoe might be a WMD, but for them that's a fairly average weapon.Captain Seafort wrote:A weapon that created a "subspace tear" somewhat similar to the rift that everyone freaked out over in "Force of Nature", and very nearly destroyed the Enterprise.ChakatBlackstar wrote:When did they do that? They fired an unpridicable weapon, but there's no evidence that it was a "weapon of mass destruction".
That's on top of the dozens of WMDs they'd already hit the E-E with - photon torpedoes. I'd say that calling weapons that are dozens or hundreds of times as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb "weapons of mass destruction" is pretty accurate.
And since it didn't hit the E-E we don't know, what effect it has. For all we know it could tear the ship apart or it could just knock everyone out of their chairs. Subspace weapons are unpridictable like that. That's why they were banned.
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Davy Crocketts are fairly "meh" weapons for us, given the power of ICBMs, but they're still WMDs because they still make a hell of a mess.ChakatBlackstar wrote:WMD's are all relative. Now for us a Photon Torpedoe might be a WMD, but for them that's a fairly average weapon.
The presence of a subspace tear was treated as a set-piece "oh shit" moment, so we can safely conclude that it would have either destroyed or seriously damaged the E-E had it not been sealed.And since it didn't hit the E-E we don't know, what effect it has. For all we know it could tear the ship apart or it could just knock everyone out of their chairs.
Unpredictable =/= don't know what sort of damage it's going to do. Geordi's comment was specifically in reference to whether the tear could be sealed by detonating the warp core - there was never any suggestion that it would be ineffective as a weapon.Subspace weapons are unpridictable like that. That's why they were banned.
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