Starfleet's Prime Directive: Keep or trash?

I asked

answer:

And that takes me right back to the Kiplingesque feeling of justified jingoism.
It’s not our business to go around interfering with other people- even when we think it’s in their best interest.

The why leave your house? Every time you step outside, there’s a chance you’ll interact/interfere with someone.

Every time I leave my house, I do my level best to not interfere with anyone that doesn’t interact with me first.
(Employee of a store I visit has initiated contact voluntarily- I didn’t go tap on their car window or front door.)

Perhaps I should put Rabbi Maimonides in charge instead of Quark.

“Anybody but Quark” would make a fine campaign slogan. :smiley:

Relevant meme

That’s just mean, Dude.

Reminds me of my step fathers. :rolleyes:

Actually, the Earth of Star Trek’s past had one, and we know quite a bit about it; it just wasn’t what we might now have in mind: World War III | Memory Alpha | Fandom

Swamp Thing is better put together then that confabulated concoction.
I’m confident Gary Seven will keep up from an actual WWIII.

“Keep up from” how?

By texting with that little pen thingie.

Take a chance. Once a planet joins a community of aliens and sees how small they are in relation to the galaxy, there wouldn’t be any good reason to suspect we’re tampering with them somehow. They’re just not that important

I firmly disagree. :slight_smile:

It’s an obscene idea designed to keep the pre-Warp types as primitive as possible so Starfleet can plunder the nearby resources.

Any moral system that would rather have a stone-age culture wiped out by a sun going nova than simply moving them to a different planet is inherently flawed. They’d rather see a culture go extinct than see it saved (if changed)