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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek]does The Omega Directive allow a captain to commit war crimes if they decide it's necessary to contain the molecule?
gpt
In short? Yes.

Now, that's not carte blanche to suddenly go wild. If you do more harm than the Omega particle would have potentially done, Starfleet is still going to come down on you after the fact. "But the Directive!" isn't going to save you if you personally wiped out a few sectors trying to prevent something from wiping out a few sectors.

BUT, a single populated world? Horrifyingly, you might be okay. Because if there was any *other* populated worlds within a few sectors, losing *only* one to properly secure the Omega particle is a good deal. Of course, there should be ways of securing it without needing to go to such overwhelming ends, but in the rare circumstance where it can't be done any other way? Yeah, Starfleet will have your back.