I don’t think so. But if you can site a source for that...
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Well, the Enterprise travels to unknown lifeforms and civilisations specifically NOT to colonize them or their cultures.
It would be really weird to state that so clearly and definite if they didn't actually mean it.
But is that the Prime Directive?
It does go to worlds offering membership in the UFP. Which in itself is a form of colonization.
The Prime Directive is about leaving less advanced societies alone, though one wouldn’t have to look very hard to find TOS episodes where the opposite is true.
IIRC, what’s stated is “...to seek out new life and new civilizations “ nothing really about what happens when they find them.
Yeah, I think you should re-think what you just wrote there...
Why’s that?
Sounds accurate enough to me. Need we pull up Eddington's speech comparing the Federation to the Borg?
Every time the Federation/Starfleet enters someone's star system without permission, they are invaders.
An invader is someone who wants to stay without being invited.
You're confusing invaders with travelers.
Nope. They haven't asked for permission to enter the system, nor land on someone's homeworld that makes them invaders. Just like if someone decided to enter your house without letting you know so they can spy on you.
Eminiar Seven, treaty port.
What if he knocks and asks for permission? Why is he in your house in your example, and not just visiting your town?
You seem to have a very... limited... framework for people's motives for going outside...
The Federation usually doesn't knock and ask for permission, they hide behind the Prime Directive.
"Hail them on all frequencies".
Ever heard of that?
You're being deliberately obtuse. Go watch the episode "First Contact". Or most episodes dealing with a pre-warp culture who aren't given a say about the Federation landing on their world.
There's enough evidence from Voyager alone that alien species don't like having their territory violated. The Equinox lost 39 people in it's first week because it violated the territory of an alien species, and ignored the aliens request to leave. The aliens didn't care that the Equinox were just travelers trying to get home.
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I think Eddington makes an interesting point. More so the idea that people don't leave the Federation because it is unthinkable. I mean, how strange is that.
Not to mention Cestus III and the Dominion War.
Or the Tholians, for that matter.
Also, to see the reverse, just look at how the crew reacted to the Kelvans traveling to their galaxy.
Also, to see the reverse, just look at how the crew reacted to the Kelvans traveling to their galaxy.
Maybe if there was a turbolift funhouse on the Enterprise-D everyone on that ship would have been less anally retentive and TNG would have been 25% more interesting to watch.
I somehow doubt it. The turbolift funhouse is plain dumb,
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