I am soooooo glad they don't have a prime directive.

@Tim-Buktu said:

I am soooooo glad they don't have a prime directive.

Even though that had a Prime Directive in Star Trek. They always found a way to break it.

Liam Neeson was a pleasant surprise.

@Nygma-0999 said:

@Tim-Buktu said:

I am soooooo glad they don't have a prime directive.

Even though that had a Prime Directive in Star Trek. They always found a way to break it.

My point exactly. What's that crunching sound? Just the Prime Directive getting stepped on again.

Well, maybe I'm seeing things, but I could swear they turned to starboard after saying the large mass was to port.

And I heard music from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Perhaps it's just because I've seem damn near everything before. But this episode kinda makes The Starlost actually seem good in comparison.

Used to be full episodes on youtube, but now that a small company brought it out on dvd, they make youtube take down everything but clips such as the opening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMAi6u4Ps5A

It almost even makes this look good, in comparison:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51k2b5

@Knixon said:

It almost even makes this look good, in comparison:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51k2b5

I see your Space 1999 and raise you a Blake 7.

Never saw it, actually. Didn't care much for the earlier style brit-fi stuff. Including Dr Who, even the newer versions. Now, UFO, that was a different story entirely!

Well actually Quatermass was okay too. But that's also a different style.

@Tim-Buktu said:

I am soooooo glad they don't have a prime directive.

The prime directive was not to interfere with developing civilizations meaning those not yet capable of deep space travel until they could not be avoided anymore (they develop deep space travel on their own) at which point they are shown the society already established and offered a place in it. The purpose was so those societies wouldn't feel exploited, subjugated, or coerced to join the established society in place as they would be at equal footing and mature enough to decide what it is they want for their people. The civilization encountered wasn't actually developing as they were already capable of deep space travel. They just sort of lost touch of who they were already, and oppressed to the point they could not save themselves even though they were fully capable of doing so. There was no violation here even if they had such a directive.

Well put. But why didn't Kirk use that reasoning for Yonada? Is there a point at which once people have forgotten long enough, they aren't considered to have advanced any more?

@Knixon said:

Well put. But why didn't Kirk use that reasoning for Yonada? Is there a point at which once people have forgotten long enough, they aren't considered to have advanced any more?

This story was actually a take on that episode, and Kirk did help the Yonada's people (at least Natira) understand what the Yonada was and saved them.

Yes, but they "debated" whether it would be a violation of the Prime Directive. Since the Yonadans themselves - their ancestors, anyway - built the ship, it shouldn't have been an issue.

@Knixon said:

Yes, but they "debated" whether it would be a violation of the Prime Directive. Since the Yonadans themselves - their ancestors, anyway - built the ship, it shouldn't have been an issue.

It was hardly a debate. Spock said it might be a violation, and then Kirk immediately came up with a loophole instead of thinking it through as he usually does in these situations. Still the results was the same, and the Federation would make an official introduction a year later (as Kirk said he would do at the end).

I guess. Although in other contexts, especially future contexts - the TNG ep First Contact being a prime example - it was the development of warp drive that triggered first contact. A generation-ship might not qualify.