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神の価値観
再びデータとピカード艦長の会話です。相手、ここでは神ですが、その相手の価値観はいかなる ものなのか?イドにその片鱗をみることができるとはいってますが、ピカードはウェスリーを 救うためにどのような論理を駆使するのでしょうか?


登場人物

Jean-Luc Picard:エンタープライズD艦長
Beverly Crusher:医療部長(艦で唯一、艦長に命令権限あり)
Data:アンドロイド(科学主任で第二副長)


P: Captain's log star date 41255.9. Whatever the object or the vessel in orbit with us, it hangs there like a Nemesis. It is one thing to communicate with something mysterious, but it is quite another to be silently observed by it, unconcerned whether it understands the same concept of reason that we do.

Da: You sent for me, sir?
P: Let's have more talk, Data.
Da: Yes, sir.
P: Sit down.
Da: What level of communication, sir?
P: Any. My apology is for saying you bubbled.
Da: But I do, sir.
P: You also see things the way we do not but they truely are. I need help, my friend. I cannot permit that boy or any memeber of this vessel to be sacrificed. The prime directive never intend to that.
Da: A problem, sir, is there. Although they learned the prime directive from my mind, how do they(?) evaluate it? How do they reason? What are their values? Remember the warning to us, sir?
P: Exactly how do I explain my refusing to obey their laws down there? Not permitting the Crusher boy to be excuted. By so doing, do endanger this vessel and more than thousand other(?) lives?
Da: Would you choose one life over one thousand, sir?
P: I refuse to let dignity(?) decide questions like that. Did you learn anything about the relationship between that and the Edo? Why they so certain it's a God?
Da: Any sufficiently advanced life form would appear to others to be that, sir. Oh, when they're proving my thoughts, Captain, I could feel that whatever they are now, they once existed in this dimension just as we do, perhaps in same kind of flesh and blood form. Since then, however, they've evolved considerably. Their present existence in multi-dimensions no doubt has advantages as we do not understand.
P: Then in some earlier flesh and blood form, they might have shared our kind of values?
Da: We know the Edo share them, sir.
P: Why would such an advanced thing oblige to protect the Edo?
Da: Perhaps the Edo are a child race by comparison. Possibly a race which those life forms were planted here. Much as we now plant human colonies on class M planets.
Cr: Having had(?) filled(?) my professional obligations regarding Commander Data.
P: You now request permission to beam down to the planet. Permission granted. You would accompany me while I trying to resolve this. And you should know that whatever it costs, I will not allow them to excute your son.
Cr: Thank you, sir.
P: Data, take command.
Da: Aye, sir.

By Picard

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