#Prime Directive

[leenfiend]

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[geekysteven]

Captain Kirk: The Prime Directive forbids me from interfering with your society

*five seconds later*

[Image description Ben from Parks and Recreation saying to Anne "Actually, it's gonna bug me if I don't"]

#star trek #parks and recreation #star trek the original series #star trek tos #captain kirk #james kirk #james t kirk #st tos #prime directive #ben wyatt #image described #image description added #described images #geekysteven

[yubsie]

So Starfleet famously has the Prime Directive. We also hear about a Temporal Prime Directive that basically consists of "Don't break the timeline".

And yet they don't appear to have an Ecological Prime Directive that addresses NOT INTRODUCING INVASIVE SPECIES.

Yes obviously this is about abandoning the lizard babies on an unsuspecting planet they don't come from.

#star trek #star trek voyager #prime directive #threshold #lizard babies #that sure was an episode that exists

[space-snake]

Sci-fi prompt feat. a bit space australia

An animal trafficker, in an attempt to avoid the authorities, dumps their product on some random planet after only the briefest of checks to make sure his product wont die immediately. He gets caught anyway and has additional chargers of ecological devastation and violation of the prime directive; Earth hadn't even properly explored their solar system yet and now they had several invasive species to deal with!

The trafficker wisely doesn't mention that they had enough species amongst his product to facilitate hundreds of separate viable populations, but only a handful survived the local wildlife long enough to be noticed by the humans. They've already got an agonizingly long sentence, they don't need even more counts of animal trafficking against them.

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[trek-tracks]

Tired: Burned the roast

Wired: Violated the Prime Rib Directive

#star trek #prime directive #puns #i'm looking at you janeway #bad puns with no purpose

[startrekker-runner]

#star trek #star trek voyager #kathryn janeway #prime directive

[the-ghost-fangirl]

“Guys this is Star Trek there are no rules!”

*looks over at the Prime Directive*

“Even that one is optional sometimes!”

#star trek #I am not wrong #prime directive #star trek the next generation #star trek tos #star trek ds9 #star trek voyager

[sshbpodcast]

Star Trek Prodigy fully defined the Prime Directive

By Ames

Dang, what doesn’t Star Trek: Prodigy do? A Star to Steer Her By just released our top-level overview of season one of the Paramount / Nickelodeon cartoon for kids, and spoilers abound. The biggest spoiler of which: We LOVED it!!!

We’re generally critical of a lot of the (mis)adventures in new Trek (shocking), so it is refreshing to see a season-long storyline that is simple enough for children yet still engaging, full of characters who develop interestingly and are a joy to watch. Prodigy does its best when it embraces what Star Trek originally set out to do: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. All things fully reflected in the need for the Prime Directive.

We recently covered how Trek captains break the Prime Directive all the time, and one of the things even the show seems unclear on a lot of the time is what our famous General Order 1 means in the first place. We even cited the Prodigy episode “All the World’s a Stage” as an interesting interpretation of Roddenberry’s first rule. And we realized, in the episode “First Con-tact,” the CGI children’s show has fully defined the Prime Directive for us!

Here’s a flipped screenshot:

The Prime Directive

If it’s a little hard to read, here’s the full text:

General Orders and Regulations

GENERAL ORDER 1

• Section 1:

Starfleet crew will obey the following with any civilization that has not achieved a commensurate level of technological and/or societal development as described in Appendix 1.

a) No identification of self or mission.

b) No interference with the social, cultural, or technological development of said planet.

c) No references to space, other worlds, or advanced civilizations.

d) The exception to this is if said society has already been exposed to concept, herein. However, in that instance, section 2 applies.

• Section 2:

If said species has achieved the commensurate level of technological and/or societal development as described in Appendix 1, or has been exposed to the concepts listed in section 1, no Starfleet crew person will engage with said society or species without first gathering extensive information on the specific traditions, laws, and culture of that species civilization.

Then Starfleet crew will obey the following:

a) If engaged with diplomatic relations with said culture, will stay within the confines of culture's restrictions.

b) No interference with the social development of said planet.

So it’s official!

The Prime Directive is for both noncontacted people and everyone else. More primitive people just have some more specific rules. But you’re still not supposed to tell postwarp species like, say, the Kaelon how to go about their lives or conclusions thereof (TNG: “Half a Life”). Thank you, hologram Janeway!

Go boldly!

And watch Star Trek: Prodigy!

#star trek #star trek podcast #podcast #prodigy #star trek prodigy #first con-tact #janeway #prime directive

[stuffandnosense]

Still feels weird spotting the elves with their pointy ears everywhere in the original The Santa Claus.

Star Trek brain keeps shouting “What about the Prime Directive?? This is a PRE WARP CULTURE.”

#Star Trek #the santa clause #prime directive

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I think a lot of Star Trek writers forgot that the Prime Directive literally only exists so the protagonists can break it when they need to.

Like, when you get to Captain Janeway deciding to let an entire planet be destroyed "so that evolution can continue uncontested", and the prequel series reveals that a eugenicist was the one who came up with it...

What I'm saying is that there's a reason the Prime Directive was one of the first things that Lower Decks decided to lampoon.

I get WHY it exists, but a lot of writers seem to prefer following the LETTER of the Prime Directive rather than the Spirit.

Not really. The Prime Directive is generally credited to Gene L. Coon as a repudiation against the Cold War and US interventions in Vietnam in particular, the idea that superpowers shouldn't be allowed to come in and "influence" the culture of a weaker entity towards their own values and for their own gain. Quite a lot is lost when people (including many Star Trek writers) take it at face value as some sort of pseudo-religious mandate rather than as a warning against colonialism.

#star trek #prime directive

[leenfiend]

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[geekysteven]

SETI: Finally, an alien radio signal! Hi, we're humans! Please tell us about yourself

VULCANS: uhh... sorry, my supervisor said you don't have warp engines yet, call us again when you can go really really fast. Please stay off this channel it's for fast people only

#star trek #vulcans #prime directive #SETI #search for extraterrestrial intelligence

[i-mushi]

I fell in love with your writing when I found Home with the Fairies, and was shocked by how many of my kinks you hit when you started putting out Cumpounding Debt. I think you are officially my favorite fanfiction writer.

Now, I am completely hooked on Prime Directive. I've been obsessed since chapter 1. Do you think you'll be continuing that story?

Omg yes I will! I know I vanished for awhile (such a bad habit...) but I do have a lot more written. I need to edit the next chapter so things link together nicely! Thank you for the reminder and I'm so glad you like all my stories!!!!

#batman/oc #prime directive #fanfiction #why am i so inconsistent with updating?? #i don't deserve such lovely readers

[agent-troi]

Found a beer my Star Trek moots will probably appreciate🤗🖖🏻

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[machetelanding]

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[ollietherandomvogon]

Star trek writers use the Prime Directive as an excuse for the most immoral decisions that are completely unnecessary.

Kirk/Picard: Oh what's that? We've landed ourselves in yet another dispute between two social groups where one group is clearly oppressed by the other? Oh well, our hands are tied, the Prime Directive and all. You understand though right?

Oppressed group: ....

Random crew member: Hell no that's fucked up

Kirk/Picard: Okay cool, so we're just going to let y'all go and and y'all can sort all this out on your own. Good luck!

#star trek #star trek tos #star trek tng #prime directive