Star Trek: 10 Greatest Captain Kirk Speeches

A Taste Of Armageddon is another of those episodes that forces the audience to pay close attention to the contemporary world around them. Here, the war that Eminiar VII is engaged in could stand in for so many wars in Earth's history, fought between others, ordered by those in power to their deaths. 

Kirk speaks to Anan 7, imploring the latter to see the futility of this endless conflict that has been quietly raging for years. If he is unable to reach the man by appealing to logic, then the next approach is to emotion.

You've made it neat and painless...so neat and painless, you've had no reason to stop it.

If war is hell, then that is an aspect that should never be forgotten. The people of Eminiar VII had managed to sanetise their war so much that it had stopped feeling like a tragedy, simply becoming a way of life for the people. What, then, was the point of an endless war? What, then, was to be gained from arbitrary destruction and death, without any gain, or cause? 

Which, of course, is the whole point of the episode.