"Various consequences spill off from this. But the important point, just as a cultural observation, is that none of the good guy characters on the show so much as consider the idea that the Klingons are behaving in an acceptable manner. The writers clearly just took it for granted that a pile of vague circumstantial evidence that some people are maybe in league with the enemy doesn’t count as a good reason to start a war. And my general impression is that that’s just how it was in the United States. The view that it might sometimes be acceptable to wage wars of aggression on a mix of suspicion and trumped-up pretext was a totally marginal view." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet