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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] No, Nero's crew was Romulan, there's no reason to think otherwise. Not all Romulans serve in the military, in fact in order for the Empire to work without collapsing or grinding to a halt, only a small percentage can serve in the military. Nero and his crew were Romulan miners, end of. As for toleration of slavery, that's a whole other discussion, but since you brought it up; Romulus was never a Federation world, so the prime directive applies. They don't have to like it, but they do have to tolerate it. Of course where certain species are concerned, the concept of slavery may not apply. For instance, what if a species like the Gaim from Babylon 5 try to join the Federation? An intelligent and rational insect race dominated and controlled by the queens, each genetically designed to a specific purpose, with no chance of self determination where all drones are forced at a genetic level to be loyal to their Queen, to feel fear when they do not obey and pleasure when they do. From a human perspective that's a horrific state of affairs, but to an alien race, it's their nature and no amount of pamphlets on democracy and "inalienable human rights" can change that, not in a million years. It's that kind of thing that Star Trek used to be good at but fell off into nice "safe" moral dilemmas that can be wrapped up in 40 mins. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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