Odo: "The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many."

@Jayhn1111 said:

What a great episode. A moral dilemma about either saving 8,000 lives or getting back to their own lives. Boy that really made Odo look bad. But if they did choose to stay, wouldn't that have ruined their own timeline causing millions of other lives to cease to exist? Or would that just be one continuous loop where they keep going back and staying, etc... Sometimes time travel and time lines are a little confusing

Their children/grandchildren/etc would still exist, just on a different planet or planets.

And I thought this post was about Deep Purple.

And He said: "...be fruitful and multiply..."

I wonder if that were the last words from Dr. Severin to those space hippies after they landed on Eden.

Somehow they didn't seem the type. In a way they were all pretty selfish.

And not just because they stole at least one ship and were willing to destroy the entire crew of the Enterprise and perhaps even risk triggering a war between the Federation and the Romulans, just so their little group could get to "Eden."

I think that was the whole subtext of the episode that the hippies were out of touch with reality.

And yet Spock encouraged them, even at the end.

He didn't encourage them he said he understood them not wanting to live in the sterile and artificial world of the Federation.

RIP Neil Peart 1952-2020

Except...

SPOCK: Adam. You know I reach you. I believe in what you seek. …

and

SPOCK: Miss Galliulin. It is my sincere wish that you do not give up your search for Eden. I have no doubt but that you will find it, or make it yourselves.

Those are just what I remembered off the top of my head, there could be more examples.

Well I guess he agreed with them but not their methods.

Not the parts involving stealing a spaceship and sabotaging the Enterprise, at least.

@Nexus71 said:

And I thought this post was about Deep Purple.

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