Why is Picard always so hellbent on accommodating and indulging the other factions in the galaxy?

Why is Picard always so hellbent on accommodating and indulging the other factions in the galaxy?

Specifically, I'm talking about the episode "The Pegasus" where they go and find a Federation starship which has a phasing cloaking device, which basically lets them cloak their ship and pass through solid matter at the same time.

He actually decloaks the Enterprise in front of the Romulan warbird and then announces to everyone what exactly happened and they're putting one of their own on trial.

This seems incredibly short-sighted.

Picard himself has had a long history of conflict with the Romulans, where they not only tried to capture him or kill him or provoke him to war, they've also messed around with his crew members. So why does he keep indulging them? Why is he so trying so hard to pamper and coddle them and denounce/deny anything that can put the Federation in a better position?

And it's not just the Romulans. The Ferengi, Cardassians, even some Klingons on various occasions... why is he so lenient? I can't understand.

he's a man of integrity

Can't all be war criminals y'know

They had a treaty with the Romulans and that phasing cloak was in direct violation of the treaty. That's why he told them.

And yet the Romulans kept violating the treaty, going into Federation territory, without ever being censured or punished in any way for it.

And that's just the stuff the Federation knows about.

Piccard understands that you don't defeat monsters by becoming a monster yourself. The ideals behind the Federation are more important than territory, short-terms tactical assets or even lives.

His superiors know this, hence why he's on the flag-ship of the Federation while "the ends justify the means Sisko" is on some dirty space station where the shit goers down

Good management overall, we should see a series about the federation president juggling both types of captain.

Because he's a bitch.

picard wants to expand the galactic empire I MEAN FEDERATION by opening his arms, educating your children and making everyone get along.

He wants to conquer with kindness

Picard is not a simple minded man. He is very intelligent, and seeks peace above all else. He can be short, and stubborn at times, but his mindset for justice is well founded.

Because his role as a Captain of an exploratory ship is much like James Cook, he is both Captain of a warship and a diplomat

he wants peace not fullscale war with the rest of the galaxy?

not that hard to figure out.

niggers kill and rape at every occasion, that still doesn't give me the right to kill all of them.

Dude also ran a school for mutants, gotta hand him them

Piccard is the father we never had

Never got into the show but Picard always fascinated me

But you can't let the whole galaxy run roughshod all over you in pursuit of that peace when none of them actually want it.

Of what use is the pursuit of peace, at any cost, when it's clear the other side is gearing up for war?

>This seems incredibly short-sighted.
How would they cover it up then?

Look at any Star Trek map. He doesn't have to the Federation is the largest faction and easily dominates any other faction 1 to 1.

If the Federation goes around pissing off all its neighbours at once that becomes much less the case. Picard shows mercy and diplomacy at every turn but not true weakness. Even the most dogmatically warlike races can tell the difference . He represents a Federation that its neighbours needn't fear but can't defeat. Better that they infight with eachother than unite against Starfleet.

Also bare in mind the Federation is balls to the wall communism and sees its enemies as allies it hasn't assimilated yet.

Because hes a fucking traitor that belongs on New Zealand.

>was reading it in his voice until the *cough* part

Why are you acting like he destroyed the technology or gave it away?

He showed the Romulans that the technology exists, that the Federation has it and that it works.

He showed the Romulans that the Federation has a massive tactical advantage over them, and that if the Romulans are gearing up for war then they should reconsider before they get their asses kicked.

It's a brilliant strategic move that you're simply too dense to understand.

As a deterrent and to follow the treaty.

So you're saying Picard should have been the one to plunge the galaxy into interstellar war?

"those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"- my 5rd grade teacher
How many good millions of good men and civilians have died from the arrogance of two high rank people? How many more must die? Picard knows this too well, the Romulans are an idiot species but they have the power to kill billions of good people not counting the good Romulans that would have died in a long and bloody war over the arrogance of some cunts. War is only justified when all other options have allready been tried or when you are attacked unjustly, just because your opponent is being an idiot that doesn't mean you have to be too.

>Federation is communism
Nope

Friendly reminder that Dukat did nothing wrong

Dukat did nothing wrong aside from perhaps being too lenient with the Bajoran terrorists, and except when he accidentally got himself stuck on the station while the boobytraps were going off, and then when he tried to screw over a rival politician by separating that politician from his son, but then he accidentally left a trail of clues and Garak caught him, and maybe that one time he accidentally got that chick pregnant and didn't abort, and when his whole life was ruined when he forgot that the Prophets were omnipotent beings inside the wormhole, and one time he tried to convince Sisko that he was perfectly sane, and went about this task by talking to imaginary tulpas, also the whole becoming Space Satan thing might have been ill advised, and of course all the times when he cheated on his wife, and when he had to perform dishonest tricks on women (including Mama Major) to get them to sleep with him, and IMO when he tried to cheat in a game of kalevian montar with Odo.

Upon further reflection, he actually did a whole lot wrong.

You're supposed to use this line for people who actually did no wrong, like Gaius Baltar or Hitler. Dukat did everything wrong.

It's a Sup Forumslette not understanding international diplomacy beyond kill em all episode thread