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It was a controversial decision also in-universe. The Admiral had to make it because otherwise he would have had to throw out of the window any pretense of clin
by samus 4y ago
It was a controversial decision also in-universe. The Admiral had to make it because otherwise he would have had to throw out of the window any pretense of clinging to the old ideals and to the rule of law. That would have destroyed everything that distinguished the Federation from an aging space empird that tries to keep itself together at all costs.
Spoiler: Conveniently, the unfolding events saved the Federation from the consequences that this decision would have otherwise had. And in the end, they ascended again, even though Vulcan^H^H^H^H^H^H Ni'var made it very clear that their rejoining was very much conditional.
- pessimizer 4y ago> he would have had to throw out of the window any pretense of clinging to the old ideals and to the rule of law. That would have destroyed everything that distinguished the Federation from an aging space empire that tries to keep itself together at all costs. That sounds to me like an aging space empire who wouldn't exchange its pompous unearned claims of moral superiority for what could have been untold billions of lives. And apparently, in the end they were saved by the writers from the consequences of that action.
- shadowgovt 4y ago> saved by the writers Not really. Plot of the next season has as background action the hard work of rebuilding, planet-by-planet, the old alliances that had fallen apart when the Federation collapsed. (But then a galaxy-wide threat shows up so there's something else to worry about)
- pessimizer 4y agoSaved by the writers in that they kill her, rather than her leaving and killing billions more that would have lived if the Federation had been concerned with human life over vengeance.
- samus 4y agoThe Federation had moral superiority already by the basic fact that its members joined voluntarily, and that they let them leave in peace.