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Winters_Sorrow · 14th June 2006, 03:48 PM

The Prime Directive was just a way of discussing the polarised viewpoints of the 'isolationist/imperialist' foreign policies of the USA during the pre & post second world war.
When does your presence/interference in a culture become negative. Is it always negative? Can it be hard to stop? Does the power you wield as a greater technological force foster a disdain of those you are there to help?

I think it does it's job of social commentary very well.

I remember an original series episode where a Starfleet observer discovered a run down and crime ridden society on the verge of social revolution & collapse and introduced an ideology of order to preserve it. Sadly the ideology was that of the Nazi party, but the road to hell, as they say...

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Winters_Sorrow Unreg. Mutant Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,708	Re: The Prime Directive: Why It Should Be Abolished The Prime Directive was just a way of discussing the polarised viewpoints of the 'isolationist/imperialist' foreign policies of the USA during the pre & post second world war. When does your presence/interference in a culture become negative. Is it always negative? Can it be hard to stop? Does the power you wield as a greater technological force foster a disdain of those you are there to help? I think it does it's job of social commentary very well. I remember an original series episode where a Starfleet observer discovered a run down and crime ridden society on the verge of social revolution & collapse and introduced an ideology of order to preserve it. Sadly the ideology was that of the Nazi party, but the road to hell, as they say...