"Are you analyzing the plant darts from the Gamma Trianguli planet?" Spock asked Sulu in the hydroponics lab.
"Oh yes, the doctor wasn't joking around when he said they were very poisonous." He held up a test tube with one of the darts inside. "Something like this could be developed into an excellent antidote."
"I'm sure it could." Spock paused before asking, "I am wondering what your opinion is of the situation that occurred there."
"Oh Vaal and all that?" Sulu turned back to look at Spock. "Yeah, everyone was comparing it to Eden except then it was obviously not." He laughed. "Frankly I don't know that it was a moral issue at all. After all, Vaal told his people to kill you, isn't that right?"
"That is correct."
"At that point, everyone's lives were on the line so I'd say that would... probably be more important than the Prime Directive. But, that's just my opinion, of course."
Spock nodded thoughtfully. "Thank you for your insight, Lieutenant."