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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9580523" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah exactly - the Federation believes in IDIC, and IDIC requires D - diversity! That means they need to let these cultures find their own way until they're inevitably going to bump into others. And yes, I definitely think the Federation is open to the idea that they might find an even more philosophically/practically sound society than their own, or at least find some ideas worth learning from - but that they won't if they just go around overwriting everyone with standard Federation ideas before they even get a chance to consider their own.Also even when they have a problem, they might solve it better than the Federation would.I do think that - going forwards - the Federation need to consider a "civilizational destruction/accidental genocide" get-out clause, even if it requires top-level Starfleet approval and so on, because it's kind of happened a few times now! And whilst most captains are smart enough to figure out a way, some of them are Archer (yeah I'm still mad, you? lol).</blockquote>