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The Prime Directive: Non-Interference

If you've paid attention to the "Star Trek" series, you probably noticed that "our" early exploration of space was brash and often cast aside rules like the prime directive. Captain James T. Kirk was a "Baby Boomer" of the 1946 - 1964 post Atomic World War II era, where the Klingons surrogated for our social concerns in our relations with the Russians. By the time of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", we found Captain Jean Luc Piccard to be a diplomat rather than a wild-west type phaser-slinger, and only after careful deliberation and exhausting all other alternatives would he violate the prime directive. By the time we encounter Captain Katherine Janeway in "Star Trek: Voyager", we find her steadfastly refusing to violate the directive, even when following it is a serious detriment to the sitution of her ship and crew. In "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", we find much political intrigue and many violations of the prime directive. In each series, various episodes touched on the definition and application of the prime directive, that of non-interference in the evolution of primitive species, planets, cultures, etc.

Those species / planets who have joined "the Federation" are of course under it's martial-law rule. I only recall one definition in Star Fleet Protocol as to universally applicable appropriate violation of the prime directive, and that is when an evolving species develops "Warp Technology". At that point the Federation feels justified in stepping-in, and inviting the species to join the Federation under Federation law. Why is this? Because "Warp Technology" is Pandora's Box... wonderfully useful for people in the Star Fleet uniform, but insidiously dangerous in the hands of primitive warriors or unethical beings or those of the "dark side", who would use it to "rule the galaxy", (differently than the way "the Federation" rules it).

Warp Technology doesn't just let you zoom from one point in space to another point in space. It allows you to move to any point in the space / time continuum, meaning Time Travel. How little help would Hitler have needed to rule Terra? We can still go back then and there and rewrite that chapter of history. What would that do to today's world? Now do you understand Warp Technology as Pandora's Box? Once we exploded Atomic-Bombs in WWII, we lost "non-interference" status, as we became a threat to the fabric of space / time and other dimensions where our "space" brothers live, and thereby gave them permission to "help" us.

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