“When you’re constantly subjected to these self righteous, self-proclaimed heroes, spewing their morality as if vomit were somehow virtuous, then sometimes, dear, a little bend, a little arch, a little antagonizing flair is required,” Lore snarls in front of Geordi in this week’s episode. Later in the series, we learned that Starfleet tried to orchestrate a genocide of the changelings through a virus - a story line that returned with gusto this week in “Picard.” In one of the best episodes of “Deep Space Nine,” Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks), the show’s hero, helped orchestrate the murder of a Romulan Senator in order to lure the Romulans into the war. In “Deep Space Nine,” we saw Starfleet personnel repeatedly operating in a moral gray area, especially when it came to the Dominion War. “Star Trek: Insurrection” gave us a Starfleet-sponsored plan to steal a planet away from an Indigenous species. If the Federation tried to move Native Americans away from their home without their permission to satisfy a silly treaty, it was with noble intentions: to avoid war.Īfter “Next Generation,” Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of mankind’s future began to give way to darker versions.

If there were corrupt admirals here and there, they were just bad apples. Any time a photon torpedo was fired, it was because the Enterprise was forced to fire by hostile forces. For much of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” Starfleet was presented as the most virtuous force in the universe - a body with the aim to do good.

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