Well, the Crystalline Entity was just feeding, and as soon as humans communicated with it in a way it could understand, it realized we were intelligent and stopped. Then we murdered it. But the point is, they let other beings get away with way worse. That old man from The Survivors genocided 50 billion people and Picard was like, “…well, as long as you feel bad about it, we’ll leave you alone.”
If they gave the Crystalline Entity rights, they’d just have to arrest it and give it its day in court, which…might be difficult
Well, the Crystalline Entity was just feeding, and as soon as humans communicated with it in a way it could understand, it realized we were intelligent and stopped. Then we murdered it. But the point is, they let other beings get away with way worse. That old man from The Survivors genocided 50 billion people and Picard was like, “…well, as long as you feel bad about it, we’ll leave you alone.”