Ethical dilemmas persist: Voyager's "Lon Suder" character had violent tendencies which he struggled to control. The Next Generation episode "The Outcast" repl

Ethical dilemmas persist: Voyager's "Lon Suder" character had violent tendencies which he struggled to control. The Next Generation episode "The Outcast" replaced dangerous, violent tendencies with romantic love; the character in question was forced to undergo treatment and then afterward was grateful for them, which raises questions whether informed consent is even possible under those circumstances. Star Trek alone had countless plot lines surrounding incurable medical conditions. Worf broke his spine, Picard has some kind of syndrome which will cause cognitive decline, La Forge had to settle for a visor for most of the franchise, and so forth. Even under utopean circumstances, ethical considerations abound, as in "The Schizoid Man," an exploration of both rights for artificial life and transhumanism. Sisko's father ignored medical advice because he chose to, and in VOY's "Scientific Method" we find aliens desperate to develop lifesaving technology, even at the cost of agency for Federation staff.