The Abode of Life

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Summary: For anyone who was ever annoyed by the Prime Directive...
Review: Kirk & Co. are transported into a void at the edge of the galaxy and encounter a planet so distant that their society cannot conceive of anything beyond their own planet which they refer to as - the Abode of Life.

This story has what I consider to be one of the greatest violations of the Prime Directive ever portraited in Star Trek.

The star around which the Abode of Life orbits is unstable. It flares periodically sending out deadly radiation causing the population of the planet to seek shelter in protected areas. The society of the planet is fundamentally based on the solar flares and how they are detected and dealt with.

In order to save the Enterprise and themselves, Kirk & Co. devise a plan to stabilize the planet's unstable star by firing modified torpedos into the unstable star that will either stabilize it or cause it to go nova!

Let me be more specific... Kirk & Co. risk the lives of hundreds of millions of the planet's inhabitants in a gamble to save the Enterprise and her crew and to promote what they consider to be the further "approporiate" development of the planet so that it can be incorporated into the Federation as a refueling stop on the way to colonize and explore this new area of space.

If you can swallow and stomach that little plot point - the rest of the story is not too bad.

I think maybe the author may have intended this as a Mirror, Mirror universe episode!

Rating:
Summary: For anyone who was ever annoyed by the Prime Directive...
Review: Kirk & Co. are transported into a void at the edge of the galaxy and encounter a planet so distant that their society cannot conceive of anything beyond their own planet which they refer to as - the Abode of Life.

This story has what I consider to be one of the greatest violations of the Prime Directive ever portraited in Star Trek.

The star around which the Abode of Life orbits is unstable. It flares periodically sending out deadly radiation causing the population of the planet to seek shelter in protected areas. The society of the planet is fundamentally based on the solar flares and how they are detected and dealt with.

In order to save the Enterprise and themselves, Kirk & Co. devise a plan to stabilize the planet's unstable star by firing modified torpedos into the unstable star that will either stabilize it or cause it to go nova!

Let me be more specific... Kirk & Co. risk the lives of hundreds of millions of the planet's inhabitants in a gamble to save the Enterprise and her crew and to promote what they consider to be the further "approporiate" development of the planet so that it can be incorporated into the Federation as a refueling stop on the way to colonize and explore this new area of space.

If you can swallow and stomach that little plot point - the rest of the story is not too bad.

I think maybe the author may have intended this as a Mirror, Mirror universe episode!