MarkB
Legend
The Prime Directive was always about not interfering with pre-Warp cultures. The Federation also avoids interfering in the internal affairs of other powers, but that's not part of the Prime Directive.
Star Trek Discovery not getting any better I fear.
The Prime Directive was always about not interfering with pre-Warp cultures. The Federation also avoids interfering in the internal affairs of other powers, but that's not part of the Prime Directive.
Hussar
Legend
Yeah, I was going to say. They more or less defined the Prime Directive as not interfering with pre-warp cultures, which Eminiar VII-Vendikar certainly were. Never minding that world they go to where everyone is stuck in 1930s Chicago.
But, yeah, breaking the Prime Directive is hardly something new.
Mustrum_Ridcully
Hero
In TNG, they seemed to have extended that, however. IIRC, Picard explicitely mentions that due to the Prime Directive, they can't interfere in the Klingon Civil War. (Only when the Romulans became involved they could interfere). This doesn't sound like it would have been a Prime Directive case in TOS.
I'd say it had become a bit overzealously applied in the later series. (Though maybe one of the most offensive cases of it being applied was in ENT, where the Doctor refused to save a dying species. Though in that case, it wasn't the Federation's Prime Directive, it was only a Denobulan thing, so it's not quite the same.)
Ryujin
Legend
Yeah, I was going to say. They more or less defined the Prime Directive as not interfering with pre-warp cultures, which Eminiar VII-Vendikar certainly were. Never minding that world they go to where everyone is stuck in 1930s Chicago.
But, yeah, breaking the Prime Directive is hardly something new.
"Pre-warp cultures" was never mentioned until the TNG days.
In "A Piece of the Action" there was an effort to try and mitigate prior interference, caused by the book "The Gangs of Chicago."
And season 3 is a go! Bring on Captain Saru and his new aggression ganglia with deluxe spike-throwing action.
re: the Prime Directive - I like to think of as aspirational. Or maybe propagandistic. It's either who the Federation *want* to be or who the Feds tell themselves they *are*, despite that frequently -- and entertainingly -- not being the case.
re: the Prime Directive - I like to think of as aspirational. Or maybe propagandistic. It's either who the Federation *want* to be or who the Feds tell themselves they *are*, despite that frequently -- and entertainingly -- not being the case.
In "Armageddon" the Enterprise is transporting that jerky diplomat whose whole mission is to open official relations with the isolationist Eminiari (sp?). No mention of pre-warp.
Ryujin
Legend
No mention of the Prime Directive that I can recall either, though I haven't seen that episode in a while.
MarkB
Legend
So, The Search For Spock is over, but Spock's Brain still has some assembly required. And now they're going to Talos IV, some time in advance of the Enterprise's scheduled first visit.
Not much else stood out for me about this episode. Time anomaly was timey-wimey, Section 31 was gratuitously evil, pretty standard stuff.
Not much else stood out for me about this episode. Time anomaly was timey-wimey, Section 31 was gratuitously evil, pretty standard stuff.
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