test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Federation Response to Hunting Animals?
sandukutupu
Member Posts: 179 Arc User
Being a non ST-Fan, I need a question answered. Assuming you are in negotiations with aliens and they want you to go on a hunt with them. Would the SF officer refuse to hunt, since they are all prim and proper? Would it be up to the officer at all if it meant a lot to the Federation?
I asked my husband about this and he said Picard was forced onto a planet with an alien Captain to hunt a beast that almost killed them. But I am not talking self defense, I am talking about hunting defenseless animals. Would the SF officer decline it at the risk of blowing the negotiations?
This is for another Foundry mission I am working on at the moment. I don't want to write something up and have 100 irate fans tell me the Federation would never take part in a hunt.
Thanks!
I asked my husband about this and he said Picard was forced onto a planet with an alien Captain to hunt a beast that almost killed them. But I am not talking self defense, I am talking about hunting defenseless animals. Would the SF officer decline it at the risk of blowing the negotiations?
This is for another Foundry mission I am working on at the moment. I don't want to write something up and have 100 irate fans tell me the Federation would never take part in a hunt.
Thanks!
Post edited by sandukutupu on
0
Comments
On the other hand, there have also been indications that some of them feel it's ok.
The best answer is possibly: Depends on the situation and the person.
Yeah, that's probably the best answer there.
As far as I know, the Federation doesn't have any laws against hunting or the consumption of non-replicated meat. I would also imagine that hunting would be taught as a part of Starfleet survival training. In that sense, I suppose it would all come down to the individual views of each person.
Mine Trap Supporter
However on the other side of the scale we have Worf who when he is trapped in the POW camp with the Klingons and Romulans who live together. Worf takes another Klingon on a Hunt and he was a Federation officer at the time.
I'm just glad they brought the replicators in as the coloured squares I saw Kirk eating once must have been nasty wonder why he never had a chef like Archer
Vice Admiral Volmack ISS Thundermole
Brigadier General Jokag IKS Gorkan
Centurion Kares RRW Tomalak
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
This will be for a KDF mission so I know the Klingon player will gladly hunt for sport.
Thanks again! If anyone has another opinion, I would be happy to hear it.
I'd think that generally, it would be frowned upon for sport.
What sandukutupu said about fostering good diplomatic relations, I would think would be an acceptable exception. It's not uncommon for a Starfleet officer to go above and beyond for diplomacy.
It's me, Chrome. [Join Date: May 2009]
"Oh, I may be captain by rank... but I never wanted to be anything else but an engineer." ~Montgomery Scott~
That sort of implies that some Federation personnel won't go hunting.
Although, in "Basics Part II" Tuvok assembles a bow intending to use it to hunt, and the Ent episode "Carbon Creek" a Vulcan suggests killing a deer for food. So the Vulcans will hunt if survival requires.
So, a Starfleet Officer probably wouldn't risk a faux-pas by refusing to hunt, but unless it's Worf, said Officer probably won't like it.
And I'm not so sure all Vulcans are vegetarians (though that's a tangential matter at best, anyway): T'Pol certainly is, but I don't think Tuvok is, for instance.
That being said, Id imagine that a lot of the citizens of the Federation would blanch at it, seeing as it would probably never come up or occur to them. Why bother going hunting when you can just walk to the replicator and order up a hut fudge sundae?
On the other hand, Im sure there are also a number of cultures for whom it remains a very integral part of society. All anthropomorphic attempts aside, Caitians, for example, are cats. Fun for cats (even house cats) is playing with some living creature in such a manner that were they human, we would term sadistic, but as they are cats, its perfectly and completely normal. Pretty much every game you play with your kitty is some form of hunting skills practice.
And, in extension of that, I am certain that there would still be plenty of regular garden variety humans on Earth the regularly go out hunting. And, Id guess that there would be even more than there are today who use deliberately primitive tools: single shot bolt-action rifles or maybe even bows, just to make it more 'sporting.'
Yeah, cause they would never violate the Prime Directive. :rolleyes:
STO Forum member since before February 2010.
STO Academy's excellent skill planner here: Link
I actually avoid success entirely. It doesn't get me what I want, and the consequences for failure are slim. -- markhawman
Unless they was a hot green skinned alien babe involved
Back to the OP. I'm sure that the practice has died out some, but it would still have participants just like today. Some people view it as a fun sport. Some see it as connecting to their ancestors (Klingons, and some humans in the west today). For Others, it may be a way to skip all the processing of food between the replicator (Like some food purist today. Or Joe's Sisko's Restaurant, Or Michel Eddington). Or it maybe steeped in cultural significance
(The Tosk from a DS9 episode, or the Hirogen).
And then, on the other side of the coin, you have people who are against it, such as animal activist, People who like the convenience of the replicator, Humans who have 'evolved" past such barbaric practices, and so on.
The Federation, and thus, Starfleet is a mixture of all different types of cultures, and all different types of people. Even in extreme circumstances, (Like the sentience of the prey in Tosk), the Federation will step back and allow the culture to do what they see fit. They may not actively hunt, but they will not prevent others form doing the same.
This is my vote for how they'll react, but I'll also add that the Federation would raise objections if it was discovered that the targets are sentient.
Traditional Vulcans are vegetarian more as a matter of choice than of social necessity--it is after all "illogical" to inflict suffering upon other creatures needlessly, but it can be acceptable when needed (e.g. the suffering of letting oneself and one's companions go unfed when other food is unavailable can be regarded as greater than the suffering of an animal that is killed for food in a merciful manner).
Also, I can totally picture Sulu chasing down deer with a katana.
With that said, no I don't think Picard would slaughter a defenseless animal for pleasure, but a hunt that uses the animal for food is not sadistic.