User blog comment:Bookworm1138/The Federation: Good or Bad?/@comment-1340488-20090924232532

In fact, the entire plot-line of the Maquis came about because Alynna Nechayev, a human Starfleet admiral, made the same mistake that FDR made at Yalta: signing away the countries of Eastern Europe (or, in ST's case, the worlds of the Native-Americans) to Soviet Russia (or the Cardassians).

Now how can someone with 'the apprehension of a god' make such an error in judgment that costs thousands of lives? It can't be because human's aren't perfect, because Star Trek seems to be preaching that they ARE perfect at every turn (not only, according to Star Trek, have humans become completely united, but they've also gotten rid of all the bad things that could happen to us (warfare, disease, poverty, etc.), whats more, they've even boasted to have gotten rid of the COMPULSION to make such atrocities happen. Sounds like changing someone's nature: and, according to what you quoted, changing one's sinful nature would rob them of their virtues, which creates something of a paradox.

Bookworm1138 23:25, September 24, 2009 (UTC)