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I really didn't care for this one.
The premise of the debate was flawed from the start. The Federation has an obligation to offer help, but there's no requirement anywhere that it must compel another race to accept that help. Indeed many, many episodes have gone out of their way to point this out. So the whole idea of a "debate" was pointless. Of course they should offer the help, but that's the end of any moral or legal responsibility. Doing anything more would itself be unethical.
On top of that, we're somehow supposed to pretend we didn't all watch Esri Dax's excellent critique of the Klingon Empire back on DS9 and instead accept that this lie of "conquest" is supposed to prop up the Klingon culture. Are we to believe that it's been hundreds of years and the Empire is still built in lies they tell each other about honour and battle? Instead of showing any hint of evolution (and potentially stoking internal conflict at the idea of accepting charity from an enemy), we just had a 5 minute "battle" and it's all ok now.
This wasn't even a respectful battle. No blood was spilt by either side, no sacrifices made. Where is the honour in that? It was a mock battle to preserve a lie. Esri would not be amused.
Just to your point about the debate being pointless, it wasn't even meant to be in the curriculum until the students fought for it.
We could mince words about whether or not the writers forced the debate plot, but what really matters is whether they sold that it was within the characters' motivation to hold one. And for me it did.