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Originally Posted by WarlikeMenelaos  I know this is going to sound strange but I thought the prime directive only applied to dealing with the natural development of pre-warp civilisations. I mean, if it meant any race that wasn't at the Federations level or above then that would seem really strange to me.
I mean the Vulcans *supposedly* gave us the idea of the Prime Directive yet weren't they violating it when they came to Earth, given your interpretation of what a violation is? |
You are correct about the stipulation being pre-Warp cultures, but that is a grey area too. Does that exclude the Kazon, who seemed to have stolen their technology? Or the Ferengi who bought their technology?
It does remove a few from janeways7's charge sheet though.
I don't think the Vulcans were meant to have given us the idea of the Prime Directive, though they wouldn't contact us until they saw we have Warp technology, and so deemed us fit enough and to be of a sufficient technology. In
Enterprise it seemed to be something that Archer was formulating in his head himself, pre-Federation. I think that would have been something we saw had the series continued on.