Prime Directive

[UncleRogi]

What are you writer's doing about the Prime Directive?

 

[BillJ]

Hopefully eliminating it.

 

[Dark Gilligan]

The question is confusing. You're assuming that the PD needs to have something done about it. What's your point?

 

[Christopher]

Well, I for one can promise that I'm not currently interfering in the affairs of any other planet's inhabitants.

 

[Sci]

Well, I for one can promise that I'm not currently interfering in the affairs of any other planet's inhabitants.

Oh yeah? What if somebody puts a copy of DTI: Watching the Clock aboard a space probe in a few years, and confused aliens discover it and decide they need to hurry up and invent time travel in case we use it against them? Hmmm?

 

[ryan123450]

Well he did say currently.

 

[JD]

The question is confusing. You're assuming that the PD needs to have something done about it. What's your point?

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the authors are supposed to be doing about it. I've never had a problem with it, and I didn't realize anyone else did.

 

[Smitty]

Is this whole concept of PD in play in a current book?

 

[Cybersnark]

Well, I for one can promise that I'm not currently interfering in the affairs of any other planet's inhabitants.

The Thermians say otherwise.

 

[timothy]

The question is confusing. You're assuming that the PD needs to have something done about it. What's your point?

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the authors are supposed to be doing about it. I've never had a problem with it, and I didn't realize anyone else did.

are we talking about the book prime directive or the prime directive itself? this is confusing even for me.

 

[DimesDan]

The question is confusing. You're assuming that the PD needs to have something done about it. What's your point?

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the authors are supposed to be doing about it. I've never had a problem with it, and I didn't realize anyone else did.

are we talking about the book prime directive or the prime directive itself? this is confusing even for me.

Starfleets General Order Number One or the Prime Directive is being discussed.

 

[timothy]

okay so what about it. I know it really has'nt been used much since the borg issue and I just started the typhon pact.

 

[UncleRogi]

The question is confusing. You're assuming that the PD needs to have something done about it. What's your point?

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the authors are supposed to be doing about it. I've never had a problem with it, and I didn't realize anyone else did.

are we talking about the book prime directive or the prime directive itself? this is confusing even for me.

Both.

I do wonder about those "fringe" systems, just about ready for First Contact, and somehow survived the amok Borg going by.

Are they even considered?

Should they be?

just an idle thought....

 

[UncleRogi]

The question is confusing. You're assuming that the PD needs to have something done about it. What's your point?

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what the authors are supposed to be doing about it. I've never had a problem with it, and I didn't realize anyone else did.

Hal Jordan became the Specture

 

[JD]

And your point is? If you were trying to give me some sort of spoiler, I've know about that going into the GL series. The first GL story I read was Rebirth #1 and I did alot of research before hand.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Well, I for one can promise that I'm not currently interfering in the affairs of any other planet's inhabitants.

I am. Shhhhhhh, don't tell anybody, but they call me God.

 

[Idran]

Well, I for one can promise that I'm not currently interfering in the affairs of any other planet's inhabitants.

I am. Shhhhhhh, don't tell anybody, but they call me God.

Your signature suggests otherwise. I mean, what would God need with a Rocket, Man?

 

[timothy]

reading star trek typhon pact: sieze the fire which brings up the prime directive.
I think it's up to the federation to protect other planets from the enemies of the federation especially when it comes to genoscide. No matter what stage of development in there society. look at star trek generation as another example of that.

 

[UncleRogi]

I'm not sure that the Prime Directive is moraly correct. Who is to judge what criteria justifies intervention?

I'm with Jim Kirk: Save lives and the devil take the hindmost...you evil bastards!!!

 

[Christopher]

I'm not sure that the Prime Directive is moraly correct. Who is to judge what criteria justifies intervention?

The idea is supposed to be that the natives of the planet in question are the ones with the right to decide their own fate -- that the Federation declines to impose its own will on the interaction. The problem with TNG's extremist take on the PD is that refusing even to allow the natives to know you exist can constitute denying them choice, making the decision for them, just as much as conquering them would. Especially the bit about "let them die rather than risk damaging their culture by letting them know we exist."