Code of Honor

The Enterprise is sent to negotiate with a lower-tech planet for a life-saving vaccine. Sounds harmless right? Wait until you see it. This week, John and Ken put Code of Honor into the Mission Log. Sheesh, this looks like a poster demonstrating the awkwardness of a Gynecologist’s waiting room. I’m a new listener, patiently making my way through all your TNG podcasts and enjoying it! I like your comments on the ethical issues raised in each episode. Good job, guys. What seems odd to me is the “Prime Directive” in this one, and yes there are many things that stick out as odd choices. I may not come across well in explaining this, and maybe I missed something, but wouldn’t the Federation by accepting the Vaccine/Antidote from the lower-tech planet be altering their own civilization’s development? It makes me wonder how often the show breaks the prime directive without really “breaking” the prime directive. Oh boy… Every time I try to rewatch this, just to see how bad it is, my partner threatens to divorce me… Another spot-on analysis, gentlemen, my compliments to you both. I thought the conversation between Geordi and Data risible, but then I’ve never been a fan of those “Why do humans (insert quirky and contradictory behaviour)?” “It’s a human thing, Data, you wouldn’t understand.” conversations. Also, technically Yarena did die, and Lutan should have inherited everything, regardless of her being revived. He should have taken it to Judge Judy…