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Isn't that always the way?
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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2026
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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.
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I mean Warp Drive literally rips apart the fabric of space causing gravitational instability, and the best the Federation could do was "hey guys, keep it below Warp 5 around settlements, kay?"
Then they told the Klingons and Vulcans who agreed. Then they told the Romulans and Cardassians who nodded but ignored it.
And then the episode abruptly ended, and Warp Drive driven climate change was never talked of again
What is this whataboutism?
I guess my messaging is, even with a progressive post-scarcity egalitarian society like Star Trek, they can still ruin entire ecosystems, and solve it with a less than appropriate stopgap solution ("stay under Warp 5").
Though it's pointed out in the other comments that they did indeed strive to fix the problem quickly, and it was fixed by the time of Voyager's creation
Can you please define "whataboutism", using that context as reference? Cause I'm confused