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That any Star Fleet Capt, or Commanding offier in case the Capt was killed or Capture came closest or breaking the
"Prime Directive" . And in second question, what's the closest you would come to braking the "PD" if it was your call to make. Just finished Voyager "Equinos pt1. When Capt Ranson tried to have Janeway Consider his situation
I thought she was too proud to admit that under ther same circumsances, she may have made the same decision...

Resistance is Futule

 

[Ensign Johnson]

I don't think Janeway would have done the same in his situation especially if you look at the episode Prey. Janeway was willing to risk getting Voyager destroyed just so she could send a species 8472 alien home to die, it wasn't even to save him, it was just because giving him to the Hirogen would be immoral. Good job Seven defied her or Voyager might have been destroyed.

 

[Orcus]

TOS: Captain Ron Tracey in The Omega Glory broke the Prime Directive with style and pinnache rarely matched by anyone else before or since...

 

[Ensign Johnson]

Voyager inadvertently broke the Prime Directive in "Blink of an Eye" so much so they became part of the planets religion. But the Prime Directive gets broken all the time, best to just ignore it.

 

[JiNX-01]

Picard flagrantly violated the prime directive in Justice and in Who Watches the Watchers? In both instances he transported members of the non-warp societies to Enterprise, thus exposing them both to advanced technologies and in both instances it was to save the lives of members of his crew.

From Memory Alpha:

Starfleet personnel are required to understand that allowing cultures to develop on their own is an important right and therefore must make any sacrifice to protect cultures from contamination, even at the cost of their own lives.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

At the same time, at least in Who Watches the Watchers, Picard justified it as the best way to reverse the damage done by interference.

Likewise, Kirk justified interference in The Apple by making the argument that the society wasn't a developing society (the big robot thing whose name I'm forgetting had caused it to stagnate completely).

 

[paudemge]

It seems like by TNG the PD had developed into a religious belief, to not interfere even if the race/planet/culture was going to be destroyed.

 

[Damask]

Sisko becoming a world's religious figure would be up there shouldnt it?

 

[YellowSubmarine]

I never liked that extreme view on the Prime Directive that they shouldn't interfere even if the world is dying. If a civilization dies it's development becomes irrelevant. It can't continue without interference so worrying that you'll break its natural evolution is pointless. There won't be one to break.

On the other hand, the Prime Directive was broken multiple times in situations where it wasn't necessary at all, without any repercussions. As if it didn't exist. Also, while I do completely agree with Picard's action in that two episodes (and I think the Prime Directive shouldn't apply), killing Wesley (or leaving him behind) would have been a good thing in both cases.

 

[captcalhoun]

At the same time, at least in Who Watches the Watchers, Picard justified it as the best way to reverse the damage done by interference.

Likewise, Kirk justified interference in The Apple by making the argument that the society wasn't a developing society (the big robot thing whose name I'm forgetting had caused it to stagnate completely).

Vaal

Sisko becoming a world's religious figure would be up there shouldnt it?

no, because the PD didn't apply to the Bajorans. and he didn't set himself up as their emmisary.

 

[JiNX-01]

Sisko becoming a world's religious figure would be up there shouldnt it?

It wasn't his idea.

And the Bajorans had already been exposed to advanced technologies in the hands of the Cardassians.