LOL... I'm reminded of the 1st-season episode where Weasel-boy Crusher falls and breaks a flower pot on some orgy planet and gets sentenced to death for it. Picard spends the episode wringing his hands over the moral implications of intervening to save Wesley, thereby undermining the planet's system of justice. If aliens had ever threatened to kill one of Kirk's crew for tripping over a planter, he would have simply beamed the person up and then bombarded the city into radioactive glass.
Talk about a missed opportunity.