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Why can't they say "Prime Directive" on this show?

I really want to know what that guy meant by them breaking the “time barrier”.
TIme Barrier = WARP 1
Of course this is waaaaaay before anybody even had an inkling of a show called "ENTERPRISE".

So do with that line as you wish.
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I really want to know what that guy meant by them breaking the “time barrier”.

There’s presumably any number of plausible explanations: whether the warp cores of the pre-Cage era had some limit on how far you could go in one warp speed travel before time dilation occurred, or whether you couldn’t travel for more than X amount of time before dilithium went splat, or some other thing. Personally, I consider it likely that there’s some difference between warp scales and “warp factors” in Cage are faster than their equivalent “warp” in Ent.
 
Yeah, but I dont remember heard James Kirk mention the "general order one"... on any of the planets that they visited... specially on those he leave his mark.
 
I was under the understanding that TAS wasn't considered canon.
There's more evidence that it is canon than it isn't. In TNGs Reunification, Sarek's rambling recollections included details of the animated episode Yesteryear. Kirk's middle name of Tiberius came from the animated series. Robert April, who was made canon in Discovery, was introduced in the animated series.
 
Elements of TAS are certainly canon by virtue of being used in the live action productions, but it doesn't follow that TAS is therefore canon.
 
Obviously, it has to be 25% different. :p

Seriously, I'm sure they do it because that's what it was called early in TOS. Same reason that Enterprise slipped in a few references to UESPA.
 
It was created by CBS for STO to help deferentiate between the different ships.
It was created by CBS and/or Paramount as a more legitimate, less derisive, euphemism for "Abramsverse."

And the temporary non-canonical status of TAS, as I recall, coincided with the Richard Arnold era, which was also the era when Roddenberry was most inclined to deny anybody else's contribution (e.g., Justman's, Fontana's, Solow's, Coon's) to Star Trek.
 
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