JOHNSON: One in five or one in 5000?
In the movie “Star Trek: Insurrection,” the Federation, secretly in cahoots with the renegade Son’a, is planning to surreptitiously transport 600 Ba’ku off of their planet in order to make use of the rejuvenating rays of the planet’s rings. In response to Captain Picard’s protest that the involuntary relocation of the Ba’ku is immoral, the Federation’s Admiral Dougherty replies haughtily: “Jean-Luc, we’re only moving 600 people.” In Abrahamic fashion, Picard counters: “How many people does it take, Admiral, before it becomes wrong? A thousand? Fifty thousand? A million?”