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Originally Posted by I, Brian I'm curious - when did the Prime Directive become a part of Star Trek?
Simply because I was watching an episode from the original series at the weekend, where the Enterprise is on a diplomatic to a world that - unknown to them - is at war with another close planet. The different being, instead of actual warfare by weapons, computers simply designate that a target has been hit, and for people in the area to report to a disintegration chamber.
Kirk has no problem at all interfering with this, in order to try and create peace between the warring planets.
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they had it in TOS but it was refered to by it's older name of General Order One. it's been a while since I've seen any TOS, let alone the episode mentioned, but if I recall correctly, the civilisation/s (wasn't a case of both races started off on the one planet and were in an almost perpetual civil war, so one side upped and left for the other planet but the war continued anyway?) in this instance already had space travel and maybe GO1/PD didn't affect it?