(08-26-2022, 10:09 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: True, but do those different entities have treaties that respect the property rights of each others' citizens? Imagine if instead of the Enterprise it had been Klingons or Gorns and Flint had not had the tech to miniaturize them. Would they have respected his claims of ownership? Would they even have had any record of anyone's ownership?
I doubt it. But then neither the Kingons or the Gorm would hide under the good will and peace cloak of the Federation now, would they? Kirk and company did not respect Flint's claims of ownership. The only reason Kirk caved is because Flint offered to process the ryetalyn for him.
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