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The Prime Directive - Would You Break It?
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People working off of a profit margin likely can't afford to kill all their customers.
The novel Prime Directive said that when a Federation ship tags a prewarp culture, that they are allotted 50 near by planets for colonization and strip mining, they might as yet still be thousands of years away from needing or being capable of exploiting.
This would suggest that there are a lot (millions?) of prewarp cultures inside the Federation, since their borders are as much about extending trade as it is about pressing against the advance of foreign imperialism.
The Klingons have been in space since the 16th century. Some times they see a planet and try to Kentucky fry every last living thing on it.
The Vulcans invented the Prime Directive, and the Romulans are Vulcans. YMMV.
Stripmine it all before the local rubes can get to it!
The Ferengi?
Federation.
That would be Stargate twice. Once with Space Indians, and then with the Unas. Although Archer closed down a foreign radioactive mining concession inside a medieval village way back in season one.
Before or after Surak?
No, they just can't do anything about it anywhere that isn't Federation Space. Anywhere that The Federation explores that isn't clamed by another interstellar power becomes Federation Space.
The Romulans had the technology to shift billions of people half way across the quadrant, away from any first editions of the Kir'shara, when there's still debate as to whether they did that with or without warp.
They migrated across the stars and settled in a system already occupied by Remans. Later they built a star empire.
These particular migrants/explorers of Vulcan ancestry clearly did not care about non-interference with other civilizations
Heliophobic telepathic subteranians would have presented as animals to any survey team, if at all. Although Google is convinced that Reeman telepathy comes from interbreeding with the Romulans, which just seems weird since there is no canon that Romulans are telepathic.
Vulcans are telepathic, Romulans are Vulcan descendants and a couple thousand years probably isn't enough time for them to have diverged to that point. Might be fair to say that Romulan telepathy has atrophied in the intervening time, but still there.
In Enterprise Melders are an abnormal vilified dispiesed and ostrasized subculture revialed for disseminating disease.
I've heard the argument that only by embracing logic can a Vulcan order their thoughts into a state where telepathy is possible.
I heard the same thing about the Vulcan life span but Spock befriended a Romulan at Khitomer, who was still alive 80 years later in Unification part one and two, but not three, so unless Spock taught this guy Logic, which was the plan, since we all saw Romulan children playing with logic toys in part 2, that dog don't hunt.
I don't see any evidence in the shows that Vulcan telepathy only showed up after the time of Surak. It seems something on the level of being able to transfer your conscious into a katric arc would be something that would take centuries of practice to develop.
It happens. There is a thousand hours of this stuff, I know I have a hard time keeping it all straight and don't more often than I like to admit.
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Who Watches the Watchers suggests that smug picks like Picard only believe that it is possible to become a space faring race after you have rejected religion.
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The exact opposite. Everything on screen indicates that it was telepathy plus emotions that led to the civil war and ultimately caused the Romulans to leave. It seems the species had a choice - keep emotions but lose telepathy or keep telepathy and lose emotions. Can't have both.
TNG' Gambit featured a (secret) Romulan getting her hands on a telepathic weapon from the time before Surak.
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